Health

The Maryland Department of Health’s count of cold-related deaths rose to six during the first week of December, as freezing temperatures arrived across the state, the latest report shows.

Jennifer Nickoles, the president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and decades-long health care executive, will become the next president and chief executive at LifeBridge Health.

In October 2024, Kennedy Krieger Institute doctors diagnosed Carmen Akras with late infantile onset metachromatic leukodystrophy, or MLD. The recessive genetic condition destroys the nervous system and affects one of every 40,000 babies in this country. There is a test, and a new therapy, that could help other children.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed a mandate Tuesday adding metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel.

Doctors are also reporting an increasing number of patients in Maryland who are dangerously sick with drug withdrawal.

The headlines may feel hard, and the temperatures cold, but these well-known and lesser known Marylanders have found joy in blacksmithing, running and beekeeping.

Dec. 15 is the deadline to buy health insurance through the state heath exchange. How are people coping with spiking premiums, and what is the state doing to help?

The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.

A new MDH report details delays and hurdles officials are facing as they attempt to overhaul Maryland’s faulty drug and mental health addiction treatment system and root out fraud.

Howard County officials plan to reopen the Savage library branch, saying tests and inspections found no confirmed sources of carbon monoxide in the building after several employees reported exposure to the gas last month.

Former professional football player Brandon Haw’s two African serval cats caused a stir Friday when they escaped into the streets of West Baltimore.

Dr. Michelle Taylor, Baltimore’s health commissioner, said the hepatitis B vaccination effort has been so effective that the city hasn’t had a case of a newborn with the infection in a decade. That record is now under threat.

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

Emergency room wait times in Maryland hospitals have long exceeded the national average, and a new state commission says the reasons are systemwide and could be complex to fix.

A study led by the University of Maryland has shown that patients with glioblastomas, a typically aggressive and fatal type of brain cancer, live much longer after being treated with a therapy called focused ultrasound.

A Bloomberg study found a new link between housing and health care.

Love & Cornbread, the nonprofit is doubling efforts in a new era of food insecurity in Baltimore City.

Pot use among young adults reached historic levels in recent years, according to a federally supported survey.

The Howard County Library Savage Branch location closed abruptly last week because of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year.