Health

Maurquise Emillo James, the suspect in the killing of the senior home resident, had been the target of employee complaints, a lawsuit alleges.

After his son’s overdose death, former Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis started a mental health foundation to bring mental health screenings to Baltimore County schools at no cost.

Animals hoarding cases — like on in February in which Baltimore County officials removed 14 dogs, 21 birds, several reptiles and a cat from a Halethorpe woman’s property — may be horrifying, but the people involved often have mental health disorders, experts find.

As the U.S. flu season winds down, health officials say the flu vaccine didn’t work very well, with one of its worst effectiveness rates in more than a decade.

The Lacks family has settled its third case against a pharmaceutical company it says profited from cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent — this one with Viatris.

The University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus has lifted precautionary tap water restrictions following detection of the common bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease.

Legionella bacteria have been detected in Baltimore’s George H. Fallon Federal Building, which houses ICE holding rooms, prompting Maryland lawmakers to raise concerns.

Starting last year, community groups like Helping Up Mission began to receive tens of millions of dollars from the city’s opioid restitution fund to combat an ongoing overdose crisis.

Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows 64 people have died due to cold weather.

Maryland lawmakers plan to add guardrails to the billions hospitals are required to spend in their communities to keep their nonprofit status.

A Johns Hopkins student helped launch a project that deploys volunteers to hospices around the country to collect the final words of the dying.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, which alleged the drugmaker profited from her cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs for medical advances.

State officials suspect a third bird flu case statewide at a chicken farm in Caroline County.

The region’s health care leaders are collaborating on a startup accelerator focused on AI products and services.

The wellness industry has boomed in recent years, begetting a sea of trendy wellness-focused restaurants that brand healthy eating as a luxury experience. But what does it mean for a restaurant to be healthy?

Montgomery County health officials are sounding the alarm after confirming that a Virginia resident with measles visited a Bethesda building and could have exposed others to the condition.

State health officials say there are now 26 cases of mumps in Maryland, nearly double last week’s figure and more than six times the tally for all of last year.

Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has grown increasingly common.

Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

The Maryland health official leading an overhaul of the state’s troubled system of drug addiction and mental health treatment programs is stepping down.