President Joe Biden is slated to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law Tuesday, including $369 billion to bolster energy security and address climate change.
During a press conference Monday, Maryland’s federal, state and local politicians; nonprofit and business leaders; and homeowners highlighted how the legislation will help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient and cut down on their energy bills.
The number of Marylanders without daily access to quality, affordable, nutritious food is on the rise, with the Maryland Food Bank recently reporting that the need rose from 8% in December to 32% in June.
To help meet that growing need, the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) has awarded $2.3 million in funding to nine organizations and individuals working to address food insecurity.
LifeBridge Health has plans of expansion on the campus of Sinai Hospital which is developing a new outpatient cancer treatment center.
The three-story, 125,000 square feet facility located on Greenspring Avenue will combine all outpatient cancer services, which are currently provided at different locations throughout Sinai’s campus.
We have failed our children over and over.
For nearly five months from February to June, 43 percent of infant formulas were out of stock, leaving many parents desperate to feed their babies. For infants with allergies, the solution was not so simple. I personally knew dozens of mothers who were left empty-handed without the formula their infant with an allergy needed despite searching online and consulting their pediatrician.
With monkeypox cases on the rise in the U.S., the Biden administration has declared the virus a public health emergency.
In Maryland, local health departments are working to vaccinate residents, but the vaccine supply from the federal government remains limited.
Baltimore is vying to be the home of a new $1 billion federal agency focused on health research.
Mayor Brandon Scott announced Thursday that he had launched a coalition effort in the hopes of attracting the agency to Baltimore.
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Letitia Dzirasa issued an extreme heat alert for Aug. 4, the second such alert for the city this season.
National non-profit Back on My Feet, which serves homeless individuals, will host its annual 5K night run on Aug. 5 at Herring Run Park.
Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, the “Sneaks Come Out at Night” 5K run will take over the streets of Baltimore to support Back on My Feet’s work to “combat homelessness through fitness, community support, essential employment, and housing resources.”
Maryland’s monkeypox vaccine supply remains scarce, and the state might have to wait until fall to receive more doses, Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday.
Johns Hopkins Hospital tied with UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles for the fifth best hospital in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s annual hospital rankings for 2022-2023.
Hopkins currently sits at its lowest ranking to date, slipping from its fourth place spot from last year. However, the Baltimore hospital remains one of the top-ranked medical institutions rated by U.S. News & World Report out of more than 4,500 hospitals in the United States, and was ranked number one in Baltimore and Maryland. It was also ranked the number one children’s hospital in Maryland.
Maryland will award $10 million in grant funding to programs addressing the opioid crisis, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday, in partnership with Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center (OOCC).
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa said it’s not true that the city has a stockpile of monkeypox vaccines that aren’t being distributed during a press conference at Chase Brexton Health Care in the Mt Vernon neighborhood.
William Miller II shares how his father, who was “at the top of his life,” died from an overdose on Oct. 7, 2020.
The next day, the younger Miller says he was given a blessing: the birth of his own son, William Miller III.
“But he will never get the chance to meet his grandfather. And his grandfather won’t know how his grandson has grown,” Miller said.
During a press conference with Mayor Brandon Scott on Thursday morning, Miller and other advocates and city officials expressed their support for overdose prevention sites, also known as “safer drug consumption spaces.”
Growing up, the Nguyen siblings saw how inhaling fumes from nail care products day after day in their family’s nail salon exhausted their loved ones and caused them respiratory issues.
So in July 2020, siblings Kim, Nam, Amy and Thanh Nguyen opened the Topcoat nail salon in downtown Baltimore with the goal of creating a healthier and more comfortable environment for nail technicians and customers alike.
