Healthcare

Pediatric hospitals in Maryland are at capacity with patients sick from two common viruses this fall.

The city has been targeting its vaccination efforts but some say there’s not enough to go around.

We hear from two doctors who argue that people who deliver health care should focus more on what patients say they want … and on the traumas, injustice and poverty that lead people into illness. The book is Health for Everyone.

Is Paxlovid a silver bullet against COVID? We ask a Hopkins physician: who should take antiviral drugs to treat COVID, and about the risk of “rebounding,” or testing positive after treatment. Plus, the escalating outbreak of monkeypox. Is this the next pandemic?

Maryland, like the rest of the country, is still is still in dire need of nurses. What are some creative ways to attract more people to the field?

We’ll go On the Record with a nursing school dean, a student and the head of the Maryland Nurses Association to talk about the causes and consequences of the shortage of nurses. The state needs 10-thousand nurses over the next decade. Can accelerated college training help?

Baltimore hospitality workers received COVID-19 vaccines and bags of food in front of the M&T Bank Stadium Thursday. The effort was led by the nonprofit Total Health Care and UNITE HERE Local 7, the city’s hospitality workers union.

Students at dozens of public schools in Maryland who get routine medical care through their schools have been unable to access that care during the…