Health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration just approved two new versions of the coronavirus vaccine.

The Anne Arundel County health department provides the drug overdose reversal drug naloxone at vending machines at eight locations.

Maryland officials found the insidious chemicals in water at 34 schools.

Inspections at the plant have been suspended and it will remain closed “until the establishment is able to demonstrate it can produce safe product,” U.S. Agriculture Department officials said in a statement Thursday. Boar’s Head officials halted production at the Jarratt, Virginia, plant in late July.

Mayor Brandon Scott laid the groundwork for the city to begin spending money, with designs on slowing the death toll in a city where in recent years an average of three people have died from overdoses every day.

The new food poisoning toll includes two deaths in South Carolina plus one each in Florida, New Mexico and Tennessee, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Three deaths were previously confirmed in people who lived in Illinois, New Jersey and Virginia.

The Baltimore hospital will use a $10 million gift to help pay tuition for medical students training there.

An adult from the Baltimore area tested positive for West Nile virus, the first confirmed human case in Maryland this year, according to the state health department.

Highland House, a 14-bed recovery home for women, has been assisting clients since this past spring. It places an emphasis on assisting those who are pregnant.

Walmart has recalled nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice sold in stores across the U.S. that were found to contain potentially harmful levels of inorganic arsenic.

Curtis Bay residents run higher risks of health problems like heart disease and cancer from long-term exposure to pollution, research shows. It takes a mental toll, too.

The smallest and least suspecting victims of Baltimore’s opioid epidemic are young children. Since 2020, 15 young children have died of overdose.

The Maryland Department of Agriculture, along with the Anne Arundel County Health Department, will enhance mosquito control services in certain areas due to public health concerns about potential mosquito-borne diseases.

The Perdue Foods recall comes after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products.

Symptoms are typically mild and mirror those of a cold or influenza but also include a facial rash on the cheek.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill said he's confident that the case will eventually reach the Maryland Supreme Court.

Marylanders are safe for now as the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the virus could cross borders.

The Democrat, who is 85, will likely return to his normal schedule next week and has responded well to treatment. He did not have any lingering symptoms from the stroke on Sunday night, according to Deputy Chief of Staff Margaret Mulkerrin.

After a Baltimore sanitation worker died on the job from overheating 10 days ago, his family spoke publicly for the first time Monday.

The settlement brings the city’s total recoveries to $90 million.