Health

The Howard County Public School System will no longer cover GLP-1 medications for employees who take the drugs for weight loss starting March 31.

A Maryland appeals court ruled that Dr. Gregory Branch was improperly removed from his job as county health officer.

Last year, Maryland lawmakers thought they had come up with a legal way to repurpose millions of dollars collected by insurers selling Affordable Care Act policies to help women who couldn’t afford abortions. The feds just squashed the plan.

The problem was discovered when a Boar’s Head liverwurst sample collected by health officials in Maryland tested positive for listeria.

Federal officials are investigating racial segregation within the Baltimore City Health Department over a racial equity training that separated employees by race.

The University of Maryland is testing a nasal spray to help protect people from common colds, flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory infections.

Nearly 600 South Baltimore students will be bused eight miles to the former Thurgood Marshall Middle School building in East Baltimore.

Maryland hospitals have treated some more snowstorm-related patients, but it's not been overwhelming so far, officials say. They are, however, ready for ice to send more their way.

Dr. Donald K. Milton has been trying to give people the flu for years.

Emergency physicians are warning people to take safety precautions during the snowstorm to avoid common issues, such as sledding injuries in children and heart attacks in adults.

This flu season is shaping up to be a bad one, and not a lot of people have been vaccinated, so Maryland Gov. Wes Moore took the time to tell people it’s not too late.

Preliminary state numbers show a more than 45% decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2023.

Lainie Rutkow, the university’s executive vice provost, will lead academics at Hopkins.

Pride Center of Maryland is one of thousands of groups nationwide that reportedly received letters late Tuesday from the Trump administration notifying them that their mental health and addiction grants had been terminated, effective immediately.

I never stopped wearing a mask anywhere people were going to breathe on me, or where I could breathe on them.

Maryland has done its best to minimize the impacts of lapsing federal subsidies by providing its own, and early numbers suggest that may help retain enrollees.

The University of Maryland Medical System is steering people to urgent care instead of hospitals. At urgent care centers, this flu season has been a doozy.

Maryland health officials are investigating possible measles exposures after a person with a confirmed case traveled through the region on an Amtrak train.

Access and affordability are virtually unchanged.

Dozens of clinicians and their patients are scrambling after the abrupt closure last week of The Chesapeake Center, a nationally known Bethesda-based practice specializing in ADHD with multiple locations in the region and Florida.