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Insulin copays dropped to $30 maximum per month for privately insured Marylanders and $35 for those with Medicare January 1, thanks to new state and federal laws.

Experts say cocaine-related deaths are likely due mostly to use in combination with, or contamination by, fentanyl.

“It’s one thing to just throw resources at a community,” one harm reduction worker. “It’s another to build relationships."

A large investment of federal and state funding for skills training is needed to build the workforce for fixing Baltimore’s crumbling infrastructure, State Sen. Cory McCray and entrepreneur Mike Rosenbaum say. That kind of “Marshall Plan” for Baltimore would benefit workers and all residents of the Baltimore region, they say.

20 months after Mayor Brandon Scott first announced the city’s intent to buy two hotels to provide permanent and temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness — a flagship piece of the homeless services strategy — city officials say they have yet to close the deal.

Residents, community activists and others took to the streets in protest one year after an explosion at the CSX coal storage facility in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay area. Residents spoke about their heightened fears of dangers to health, safety and the environment they believe the facility poses.

The state’s long ER wait times — an average of 228 minutes — predate the current tripledemic.

What’s next for Maryland’s first-of-its-kind Prescription Drug Price Affordability Board, and will its innovative approach to lowering drug prices succeed?

Baltimore police aren’t seeing an uptick in reports, but a Pride Center of Maryland survey found a rising concern in the LGBTQ community about being drugged in a drink at gay bars.

The Baltimore Health Department gets an infusion of money after years of pandemic strain.

The post-Thanksgiving uptick in respiratory illness foreshadows what could be in store following the winter holidays, experts say.

Violence intervention programs must go beyond public health-based approaches and build solutions that consider the complex historical and economic conditions that drive violence in Baltimore communities, Lawrence Grandpre of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle says.

Facing a big shortage of nurses, Baltimore County partnered with St. Joseph Medical Center and CCBC for training.

Caring for children with highly complex emotional and behavioral needs is a challenge that exists across the country. But in Maryland, the problem has worsened over the last decade — and many blame outgoing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

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The report found not all providers offer interpretation through bilingual staff or translation services although they are receiving federal financial assistance that mandates the services, and also that state health officials are not providing guidance or consistently enforcing the rights.

MOMCares, a Baltimore organization that specializes in maternal health, is seeing spiking demand for doula trainings, which founder Ana Rodney attributes to the changes in access to reproductive health services across the country.

FDA considers Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions’ naloxone spray for over-the-counter use.

It’s not easy to tell where science ends, and speculation and agenda pushing begins.

COVID-19 took years off Americans’ lives, but so did other ills, and they all need to be addressed.