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“This is the first fall and winter virus season where vaccines are available for the three viruses responsible for most hospitalizations – COVID-19, RSV, and flu,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Extreme weather conditions, rising sea levels and other climate change effects can allow diseases to creep in and become the next major threat.

After a scathing audit of Maryland’s health department revealed a “pervasive lack of documentation” and other issues of financial oversight, Maryland lawmakers held a…

Fewer than 9,000 Marylanders lost Medicaid coverage last month, the lowest number of terminations since April, when the state began discontinuing coverage on a…

The state is losing employees almost as fast as it can hire them using unusual and outdated and uncompetitive hiring practices.

“Veterans, as a result of their serving our nation, have been exposed to different stressors than our civilian population,” according to Dr. David Marcozzi, Chief Clinical Officer for the University of Maryland Medical Center.

This audit comes just days after the state Department of Health received a scathing report which said the department had a “pervasive lack of documentation.”

Davis expresses concern over contract with a Montana-based company; Moore says new audit highlights the “brokenness” that existed in the government he inherited.

During the pandemic, federal COVID relief packages distributed more than $4 trillion across the United States to counter the then-novel COVID-19 virus. But over…

Inappropriate Medicaid terminations, computer errors and even call center wait times have added hurdles for some of the 1.8 million Marylanders waiting to see if their coverage will be renewed.