Health

Many patients don’t even know about the annual screening, which can save lives when it catches the disease early.

City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.

The news coverage of drug addiction has long covered victims and addicts differently depending on race and class. The Banner's recent project is a welcome change.

Craig Lippens, president of the Maryland Addiction Directors Council, said treatment is key to addressing Baltimore’s opioid crisis but too many obstacles persist to offer more options.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that enables semiautomatic rifles to fire like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The tallied vote came in Thursday night as 628 voting for and 19 against. To win union certification, they needed just a simple majority of those who chose to vote.

Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.

High temperatures could reach 96 degrees in Baltimore next week.

A yearlong investigation recently published by The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times revealed an unprecedented overdose crisis gripping Baltimore.

One of the last people to see Devon Wellington alive, before he overdosed in 2021, has developed a relationship with the man’s mother. She taught him how to use Narcan, and they recently attended a street renaming event together.

Properly implementing Gov. Wes Moore's executive order to establish air standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and water heaters will mean healthier Maryland communities, the president of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative says.

Baltimore has settled with pharmaceutical company Allergan for $45 million, a big win compared to the amount the city would have received had it joined Maryland in a similar agreement.

It’s difficult for teachers to balance catching students up academically and attending to their mental health. Kat Locke-Jones may have cracked the code.

County Executive Steuart Pittman's proposed budget includes $49 million to build a new Glen Burnie library to replace the existing one, which was opened in 1969 and is considered outdated.

Pasadena veteran Kyle Butters launched the running event to raise awareness for veterans who have died by suicide, suffered from PTSD and other mental health challenges.

The 83-year-old patient was stable enough to leave MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. When he refused, the hospital sued.

Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.

Centurion of Maryland will take over providing medical and mental health care to an estimated 20,000 people who are incarcerated in state-run prisons and jails. The officials who signed off on the deal expressed frustration with the process.

A 59-year-old man who died recently in Prince George’s County marks Maryland’s first heat-related death this year, the Maryland Department of Health said Wednesday.

Carlton R. Smith, a fixture in the city who advocated for Black and brown members of the LGBTQ community and was currently fighting to decriminalize HIV in the state, died in his sleep May 29 in his Mount Vernon condominium. He was 61.