Health

Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'

The longer kids stay in hospitals, physicians and administrators say, the more that their mental health deteriorates, and the more that limited and costly emergency-room resources are shifted away from other patients with critical needs.

“From a surveillance perspective, we’re flying blind right now,” said Chris Beyrer, the outgoing Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Here’s a roundup of what to know about the monkeypox outbreak, sourced from a slate of regional experts in public health, epidemiology and infectious diseases.

Baltimore's health department says there's no appointments available for monkeypox vaccines, but the city is working to get more doses.

A local mother illustrates her experience tracking down a COVID vaccine for her young son.

The Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals voted last October to give Vaughn Greene Funeral Services permission to install a crematorium. Neighbors filed a petition in Baltimore City Circuit Court and now await a judge’s decision.

Hosts for Humanity, a small nonprofit that assists people traveling to Baltimore for healthcare, is relaunching next month and broadening its scope to welcome those coming here for abortions. Already, 15 new families have signed up to be hosts.

City workers said the decrepit condition of a sexual health clinic building provides a window into a much larger problem with old Baltimore buildings.

As the virus continues to mutate, public health experts said infections may become more common and more severe among those who have been boosted and recently infected.

Maryland is positioned to be a haven for individuals who want to end their pregnancies. Baltimore clinics are preparing to accommodate an expected wave of patients from states with more restrictive abortion laws.

As one of 13 states with strong laws that protect the right to an abortion, Maryland will play a key role for those looking to end a pregnancy.

State environmental officials tested chips Wednesday after residents complained.

Case identified in an adult showing mild symptoms in the Capital Region near Washington DC

Frustrated educators still waiting for a “return to normalcy.”

As the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Banner reporter shares her deeply personal story of what it meant to choose to end a pregnancy.

Baltimore Banner columnist Leslie Streeter on flying after federal mask mandate ruled unconstitutional.

More than 200 bodies are awaiting autopsies by doctors at Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the agency located in downtown Baltimore responsible for investigating deaths statewide. The unprecedented backlog is growing by the day and filling up the morgue refrigerators.