Health

Legionella bacteria have been detected in Baltimore’s George H. Fallon Federal Building, which houses ICE holding rooms, prompting Maryland lawmakers to raise concerns.

Starting last year, community groups like Helping Up Mission began to receive tens of millions of dollars from the city’s opioid restitution fund to combat an ongoing overdose crisis.

Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows 64 people have died due to cold weather.

Maryland lawmakers plan to add guardrails to the billions hospitals are required to spend in their communities to keep their nonprofit status.

A Johns Hopkins student helped launch a project that deploys volunteers to hospices around the country to collect the final words of the dying.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, which alleged the drugmaker profited from her cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs for medical advances.

State officials suspect a third bird flu case statewide at a chicken farm in Caroline County.

The region’s health care leaders are collaborating on a startup accelerator focused on AI products and services.

The wellness industry has boomed in recent years, begetting a sea of trendy wellness-focused restaurants that brand healthy eating as a luxury experience. But what does it mean for a restaurant to be healthy?

Montgomery County health officials are sounding the alarm after confirming that a Virginia resident with measles visited a Bethesda building and could have exposed others to the condition.

State health officials say there are now 26 cases of mumps in Maryland, nearly double last week’s figure and more than six times the tally for all of last year.

Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has grown increasingly common.

Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

The Maryland health official leading an overhaul of the state’s troubled system of drug addiction and mental health treatment programs is stepping down.

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.