Health

“I don’t want to leave anybody behind," said Sharon Colburn, who directs animal services in Baltimore.

Sharon Murphy, who retired as director of the veterans home in 2021, will serve as interim director while the department looks to hire someone new.

A fungus called Candida auris is spreading rapidly around Maryland and the country, concerning public health officials. But it’s not an immediate threat to people outside hospitals and long-term care facilities.

The Environmental Protection Agency needs a stronger rule to reduce particle air pollution and to protect people with chronic lung disease and the broader community in places like Baltimore, says Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a physician with the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and community engagement co-director of the Baltimore Breathe Center.

A new study shows Maryland had the fifth-lowest COVID death rates per capita. What did the state do right?

Since 2018, the Morgan State University graduate has raised more than $1.2 million in venture capital for Femly, her company that helps women have access to safe feminine hygiene products.

Maryland’s one-of-a-kind system for regulating hospital costs protected health care facilities from financial ruin during the pandemic. Meanwhile, it saved money and improved quality of care, according to a recent report.

Those living in Baltimore and surrounding regions are at high risk for Lyme disease transmission through tick bites. An expert from Johns Hopkins’ Lyme research center explains why and shares ways to avoid tick-borne illness.

Securing an appointment with health providers in Maryland has become a monumental task for patients, who say they have hit barrier after barrier in the search for care.

The Trans Health Equity Act, which appears headed for final passage, would require Maryland Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care and procedures for transgender patients.

Anne Arundel was the first county in Maryland to put suicide prevention pamphlets in gun shops. On Tuesday, a federal judge threw out a First Amendment challenge to the law from a gun rights group.

Allegany County’s school system blames one provider for what it calls excessive absences and unsafe transportation to appointments.

The Moore-Miller transition team gathered input from more than 5,000 Marylanders to identify the state’s biggest challenges, develop solutions and help set priorities, says Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller, who chaired the transition team.

All Maryland jails need to reach compliance with a requirement to offer medication-assisted treatment for opioids, U.S. Rep. David Trone says.

For this week's Maryland Curiosity Bureau, Aaron Henkin takes some time this week to remember Theo Hill.

A scholarship program for kindergarten to 12th-grade students is the target of selective outrage, Tony Campbell, a Towson University faculty member, says. Loss of Medicare Advantage plans is putting the health of Maryland seniors at risk, Rev. Alvin Hathaway Sr., president and founder of Beloved Community Services, says. Promising and rewarding careers are available at facilities serving seniors, Allison Roenigk Ciborowski, president and CEO of LeadingAge Maryland, says.

Overdose prevention sites in Maryland would reduce fatalities and provide a public health solution to the health crisis arising from drug abuse and addiction, say two state legislators who are supporting a bill to help establish the facilities.

Excluding NORAD’s Christmas Eve Santa tracker, there may not be a world map viewed so many times as the one Johns Hopkins University engineers created to keep tabs on COVID-19.

The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.

With no active cases and low transmission for the past two months, Baltimore health officials have ended their emergency response to the outbreak.