With EpiPens and other prescription drugs rising in cost, families who desperately need them but do not have health insurance are bearing a huge financial burden, according to community advocates.
Maryland
Maryland joins suit against recovery-drug maker as opioid overdoses rise
Health department reports more than 900 opioid-related deaths in Maryland for the first half of this year — a large jump.
Efforts ramp up in Maryland to bring back vanishing state insect
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — When Wayne Skinner started volunteering at Cromwell Valley Park in Baltimore County five years ago, he expected to see orange-and-black-spotted Baltimore checkerspot butterflies flying around the park.
Franchot, NAACP: lack of air conditioning in Balt. Co. schools a civil rights issue
The Maryland comptroller and an NAACP official say a disproportionate number of poor students are suffering without air conditioning, and are calling on the federal government to investigate Baltimore County schools for what they say are civil rights violations.
Population without health insurance is decreasing more slowly in Maryland than U.S. average
Almost every state saw the percentage of residents without health insurance decrease between 2014 and 2015, in part because of the expansion of coverage under the Affordable Care Act
Two Exelon-owned companies petition to raise electric bills for Maryland customers
In less than a year, three Exelon-owned power companies have filed petitions with the Public Service Commission of Maryland to raise the price of electric bills.
Maryland decreases psychiatric hospital bed backlog
ANNAPOLIS – The number of court-ordered individuals waiting to be treated in Maryland state psychiatric hospitals decreased by about 85 percent since May, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Maryland’s health Secretary Van T. Mitchell created a…
Maryland’s highest court hears free speech case regarding Spanish-language license plate
The Maryland Court of Appeals is considering whether the state’s Motor Vehicle Administration acted unconstitutionally in recalling vanity license plates sporting a Spanish scatological word.
High-speed broadband access sparse in rural Maryland counties
Rural areas in less populated Maryland counties have significantly less access to high speed internet than people in more populated parts of the state, preventing them from fully participating in our increasingly connected world.
Metro’s Potential Service Hour Cuts Aren’t Popular with Twitter
A shortened schedule could drastically affect workers’ ability to travel to and from work at night and in the morning, among other things.