Science and medicine

Marylanders aren’t getting screened for the deadliest cancer
Many patients don’t even know about the annual screening, which can save lives when it catches the disease early.
Venus White, left, is a lung cancer survivor who was scanned early enough to be treated. Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko, right, is the executive director of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, where White was treated and is now cancer-free.
Commentary: Here are solutions for Baltimore’s overdose crisis
City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.
Renovated, expanded Tuerk House in Baltimore aims to help assist people struggling with addiction and mental illness.
Commentary: It’s not just opioids. New drugs make it harder to fight Baltimore’s overdose crisis.
Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.
Candy Jovan demonstrates how an overdose prevention site would work at a mock setup at The Charles Theatre before the screening of a Canadian film about fentanyl on January 24, 2023.
Community health workers were essential during COVID. Now, they’re asking for help.
There is a move afoot to help expand and pay for a what been a largely hidden workforce in Maryland of community health workers, who help marginalized people get health care and other services though they often go without.
Linda Flores is a community health worker through Latino Health Initiative.
A risky double transplant and back to work. Restaurateur Tony Foreman is used to almost dying.
Tony Foreman, co-founder of one of Baltimore’s biggest and most respected restaurant empires, was saved by a heart and kidney transplant surgery so tricky John Hopkins couldn’t do it.
Restaurateur Tony Foreman shows the scars on his chest from numerous surgeries.
Morgan State’s plan to train more Black doctors is years behind schedule
Construction hasn't started, funding appears uncertain and it'll be at least another two years before students enroll.
Photo collage of old hospital building on left and young Black female medical student on right, both obscured by chain link fence.
Letters: Immigrants have always made America better
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.
Commentary: Larry Hogan’s abortion pivot reminiscent of Bush’s ‘no new taxes’
Maryland voters have every reason to be skeptical about Larry Hogan’s announcement at the start of his 2024 general election campaign for the U.S. Senate that he now favors abortion rights, says a former Maryland official who compares the announcement to President George H.W. Bush's “no new taxes” pledge.
As he faces off against Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland’s U.S. Senate race, Larry Hogan now says he favors reproductive choice for women.
Henrietta Lacks family can proceed with lawsuit over use of HeLa cells after ‘milestone’ ruling
The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago.
Illustration of Henrietta Lacks and members of her family.
Commentary: Long emergency room wait times point to health system failures
Rethinking approaches to health care and adopting a new nursing initiative would help alleviate long emergency care wait times that put Marylanders at risk, leaders of health care and nursing programs at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State universities say.
From left: Sarah Stanton, Kim Dobson Sydnor and Maija Anderson.
Key Bridge collapse sends oysters to a new home
Since 1995, an oyster reef has existed at Fort Carroll, an uninhabited island in the Patapsco River near the Key Bridge.
A collection of buckets full of spat- or baby oysters- sits on the edge of the Port Covington Marina during a volunteer event with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on Friday, May 10, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. (Wesley Lapointe / for The Baltimore Banner)
Northern lights could be visible in parts of Maryland this weekend. Here’s why.
The timing isn't certain, but there is a possibility of seeing the brilliant northern lights much further south than normal this weekend.
Solar activity means the northern lights could be visible across large parts of the United States. There is some risk to satellites, but the forecast geomagnetic storm does not pose safety risks to most people.
Campus protesters want Johns Hopkins to divest. This lab is what they mean.
The Pentagon has awarded a university lab $12 billion over past decade. Pro-Palestinian protesters want that to end.
As pro-Palestine demonstrations at Johns Hopkins University stretch into their second week, protesters are demanding the school cut ties with the Department of Defense, which awards billions to a Hopkins research lab.
Maryland hospitals took money from poor patients. Why haven’t they paid them back?
Refunds are coming — as much as eight years after the first patients paid their bills.
Hospital and state officials have to figure out how to find the patients owed refunds without violating the privacy laws that protect their health and income data.
Emergent BioSolutions plans layoffs, will close Maryland plants
The company, which was supposed to be a key player in the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will close its Baltimore-Bayview Drug Substance manufacturing facility and its Rockville Drug Product facility.
Emergent BioSolutions’ best-known product is Narcan (naloxone), a nasal spray used to treat opioid overdoses.
Baltimore Peninsula crane operator dies after medical emergency over 100 feet in air
A crane operator found unconscious and unresponsive hundreds of feet in the air at a construction site at the Baltimore Peninsula has died.
A Baltimore City Fire Department’s Special Rescue Operations team rescued a crane operator on the Baltimore Peninsula on May 1, 2024, after he went into cardiac arrest while roughly 180 feet above the ground. Officials said the man died later that day.
Johns Hopkins breeds millions of mosquitoes — to stop them from killing you
After the U.S. logged its first cases of malaria in decades, Johns Hopkins mosquito research takes on new urgency.
Mosquito colonies in the insectary at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are housed in clear boxes in a climate-controlled room and fed sugar to sustain them.
Maryland team on NASA project to examine ocean, atmosphere
Two Maryland teams — from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and a team from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Airbus Netherlands B.V., each worked on one of the three instruments on the satellite.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County professor Vanderlei Martins examines a replica of HARP2, an instrument on the PACE satellite that will help identify particles in Earth’s atmosphere.
University of Maryland Medical Center doctors push to unionize, a first in the state
A group of physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center have formed a union that would represent more than 900 residents and fellows, according to union organizers.
Resident physicians and fellows at the University of Maryland Medical Center have organized with the American Federation of Teachers-Maryland.
How the total eclipse of the sun became a ‘total eclipse of the heart’ for my family
This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.
Leslie Streeter’s son watches the total eclipse that took place earlier this week.
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