Health

As the toll of America’s opioid epidemic continues to mount, the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced the Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine, where researchers, substance use disorder specialists and doctors will work together to change the way addiction is treated, prevented and studied.

LifeBridge Health has named Amy Shlossman, a health care leader and policy expert with a background at the White House, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Red Cross, as the new president and chief operating officer of the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and Grace Medical Center.

Here are five ways to boost both your individual health and the health of our planet -- a combination that environmentalists call co-benefits.

Abuse survivors say a report by the Illinois AG on the Catholic Church is more transparent than one issued in Maryland.

There have been several resignations, a priest put on leave and another whose transfer was canceled after it was revealed they're in the Catholic Church abuse report.

One of the former Catholic officials whose names were redacted from a child sex abuse report founded the Maryland State Boychoir.

The Baltimore Sun has identified an Episcopal priest and two former Catholic clergy on the list of abusers in the Maryland Attorney General's Office on Catholic Church abuse.

Although people with darker skin produce more melanin, which does have some additional sun defense, that does not mean darker-skinned people are fully protected from developing skin cancer.