Health

Kaiser Permanente workers across the country have gone on strike, but not in Maryland so far.

Mental health professionals and crisis response researchers now have more than two decades of experience responding to school and campus shootings, and have a better idea of how to help survivors and community members whose mental health may suffer.

Test results delivered Tuesday showed no traces of the parasite cryptosporidium in the open-air reservoir, where low levels had recently been found.

How safe is the drinking water in Baltimore right now? How did Baltimore discover cryptosporidium in the water? We answer those questions and more.

In the wake of confirmed — or even suspected — cryptosporidium contamination, it is common for certified labs to offer 24-hour testing for an additional fee.

New fellowship program offered by local universities aims to strengthen school social worker pipeline, but schools still won’t have enough social workers.

COVID-19 cases are rising, and a new vaccine is approved, but it can be hard to find doses in the Baltimore area.

Portions of Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County are affected, and those with compromised immune systems should filter or boil water before drinking, officials said.

Black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

As the Greater Baltimore Committee focuses on boosting this region’s economic competitiveness, it must also support programs to end the economic apartheid that now plagues the city’s disadvantaged Black neighborhoods, says Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University.

While the next few weeks will be critical, doctors were thrilled at Lawrence Faucette’s early response to the pig organ.

A surgeon at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore is among the pioneers of procedure called HIPEC that can give some late-stage cancer patients months or years cancer free.

The Department of Health and Human Services says orders can be placed at COVIDTests.gov starting Sept. 25, and that no-cost tests will be delivered for free by the United States Postal Service.

About 4,000 Kaiser nurses, technicians and medical professionals could go on strike as early as Oct. 1 if the company and coalition of unions cannot agree on a new contract by the end of September.

Women of color can experience separate menopause symptoms, and sometimes more severely than others. We need to talk about it.

A community wealth fund would provide a financial lifeline for Baltimore’s working poor, says a union leader for this region’s service workers.

When a lifelong soccer player became a full-time wheelchair user, she found comfort in adaptive sports.

New COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be available soon, as early as this week.

Improved public health policies and individual actions by loved ones can help prevent suicides, Anthony Woods, Maryland’s secretary of veterans affairs, says.

A gastroenterologist at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Centerexplains what the disease is and why it could cause the Boss to take a month off.