Health

Dr. Kelly Ryan and her team, as well as the emergency medical staff, are making sure the jockeys are ready to ride, and if they’re injured, that they get prompt attention.

Moving low-income families out of high-poverty neighborhoods can improve kids’ asthma more than medications do, according to research from the Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership.

Decriminalizing drug paraphernalia is one step Maryland can take toward ending policies that have failed to curb an epidemic of drug-related deaths, says Jessie Dunleavy, an advocate for drug policy reform.

Success of the new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center will hinge on luring back Prince George’s residents who now get their hospital and outpatient services in other counties.

Hopkins officials announced Wednesday that scientists received a $35 million grant to accelerate their work to understand why and how cancer spreads, or metastasizes, and to do something about it.

Dr. Rodney J. Taylor offered a more satisfying answer than the vague, and somewhat forgettable, “sore throat.”

Exactly how many people have it and where, no one knows. Real-time data is becoming scarce.

As the COVID-19 public health emergency ends, Maryland begins the Herculean task of renewing Medicaid coverage for everyone enrolled for the first time in three years.

Health insurance would help the undocumented get the care they need, before it’s an emergency. But legislative efforts are stalled.

A Q&A with a cannabis expert about the benefits, best approaches and warnings about the soon-to-be-legal drug.

New research shows the software’s responses may be smarter and have a better bedside manner.

The recent loss of my grandmother proves that no amount of expertise can conquer the shock, panic and sadness.

Maryland will soon be the first state in the country with a functional Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which is aimed at bringing down the high prices of some prescription drugs.

The Academy of Clinical Essentials initiative, which started at the University of Maryland Medical System, could be adopted by health systems across the country.

New governance models for Baltimore’s water run the risk of further harming Black and low-income neighborhoods, say David Wheaton, an economic justice policy fellow at the Legal Defense Fund, and Mary Grant, campaign director at Public Water for All.

A case of tuberculosis was identified at Joppatowne High School in Harford County, the county’s health department confirmed Monday.

Xylazine, an animal sedative that slows breathing and causes hard-to-treat skin ulcers, was found in 80% of Maryland drug samples in a recent study.

“Love Is Blind” host Vanessa Lachey set off a firestorm when she kept pestering the cast about when they might have kids. Offscreen, it’s a question a lot of us have had to endure.

Obesity is a chronic disease that has brought a particular set of consequences to communities of color, Dr. Garfield Clunie, president of the National Medical Association, says.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he was “glad” the court preserved access to the drug “and not further escalate attacks on reproductive rights across the country.”