Health

State health officials plan to seek a new vendor by year’s end.

Recent examples of mistreatment of people with disabilities point to a need to provide them with greater protections, an advocate for people with autism says. An election judge calls for the return of centralized polling places.

Sheppard Pratt President and CEO Dr. Harsh K. Trivedi says Maryland needs to do more to address what he calls a behavioral health crisis affecting young children and teens. Hospital emergency departments are not the best setting to respond to a rise in behavioral problems among young people linked to the pandemic and other factors.

On any given day this past summer, about 50 children in Maryland found themselves in hospital emergency departments waiting weeks — or even months ― for a spot in a residential treatment center, psychiatric facility, or therapeutic foster home.

As of Thursday, the shot has been administered 600,560 times in the state.

The complaint seeks damages and the establishment of a medical monitoring fund.

Health department officials said in a statement that "the individual was immunocompromised, resulting in a more severe case."

More vaccination appointments will be offered at a new location, Nomi Health, located at 419 W. Baltimore St.

Although considered atypical for a health department to be involved in victims' services, the program has grown as the lens through which Baltimore views its trauma expands from a public safety issue to a public health issue.

Their jobs took on new levels of urgency during the pandemic, and they continue to monitor possible threats to public health.

They want to know if residents were discriminatory in their opposition.

Opponents to a ballot measure that could legalize marijuana for recreational use say there's been little focus on mental health harms that marijuana, which is already approved for medical use, may cause or exacerbate, including psychosis and depression; especially in children and teenagers.

When we feel bad, are we more or less likely to take care of ourselves if it's not COVID-19?

Washington, D.C., health officials have vaccinated people against monkeypox at a rate at least 56 times higher than Maryland, a Baltimore Banner data analysis of both jurisdictions’ data found.

A Baltimore ACE (adverse childhood experiences) trainer, and a survivor or childhood trauma himself, explains why — and how to help.

Surveyors flagged problems in the medical center’s food preparation facilities, primarily the kitchen in one of the hospital’s original buildings, and pointed out various pieces of furniture in need of repair.

Anne Habberton and Jon Shaw turned about 30 acres of farmland into a meadow of native wildflowers and have deepened their bond with the land.

The city's top public works official told council members that there were many "lessons learned" in last week's response to bacteria contamination in the Baltimore water system.

“These children are often abused or neglected and this is how the state is choosing to raise them,” one attorney said.

With an average age of 75 years, Baltimore’s old water pipes have become increasingly vulnerable to the kinds of contamination that occurred last week.