Health

Twelve percent of the 139,000 people up for renewal in June lost their health insurance for preventable reasons, bringing the total of avoidable coverage losses to 42,000 over two months.

The pandemic and the national racial reckoning led to a surge in patients and clients for Black therapists. Some of those therapists are still processing the experiences themselves.

The staff at MedStar Harbor Hospital is used to tending gunshot wounds once every other week. But last weekend they treated two-thirds of the Brooklyn mass shooting victims.

A group of eighth grade girls from Baltimore have a new idea to bring fresh food to your door: a bus that parks in your neighborhood, chock full of locally farmed dinosaur kale, berries, cabbages and squash.

Johns Hopkins medical offices will begin charging a fee to send some messages through its online patient portal, according to a memo to staff obtained by The Baltimore Banner. The change goes into effect July 18.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidance calling for earlier interventions to help prevent kids from developing diabetes, high blood pressure and other potentially devastating conditions.

A round up of The Baltimore Banner's cannabis coverage.

People who are 21 and older will be able to legally purchase cannabis starting Saturday in Maryland.

A liver transplant saved the life of Morris Murray. Now he wants others living with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis to know that they, too, can receive and donate organs.

It’s still illegal — and risky — for anyone under 21 to use marijuana.

The Mayor’s Office of Aging would focus on topics such as income maintenance, housing and personal care services.

One in three shooting deaths involve heavy drinking, but alcohol use is not widely addressed in public policy or violence prevention programs, Johns Hopkins researchers found.

Age-related macular degeneration is incurable, but Marylanders are getting better treatment for it now, physicians say.

Some 5.1 million Marylanders live in areas that are failing to meet EPA‘s ground-level ozone standards and suffering adverse health effects, including higher levels of asthma.

The measure was introduced five years after Jordan McNair, a University of Maryland football player, collapsed due to heatstroke during practice and later died.

Family members with their own work and family obligations are having to step in, and often cannot provide the level or frequency of care that their loved ones need.

Juice bar organizers want to promote entrepreneurship and healthiness one sip at a time.

Johns Hopkins APL scientists are figuring out how to get so-called “forever chemicals” used in products and packaging out of the environment so they can’t harm people or animals.

The harm reduction model, which has received endorsement and funding from the Biden administration, offers potentially life-saving services to opioid users, without requiring abstinence in return.

Reducing Maryland’s high rate of opioid overdose deaths will require improved approaches by the state’s health care providers, says Dr. Enrique Oviedo, a psychiatrist who serves as medical director of MATClinics.