Your weekly dose of health news, tips and events for Maryland.
 Tuesday, Jul 17 CDC Director Robert Redfield Jr. recently explained why the fight against the opioid epidemic is so personal to him: His son nearly died of an overdose |   | |
| Imamu Baraka, the man who captured a disoriented woman on video after being put out of a Baltimore hospital in just a hospital gown, has died from cancer. |
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| State-sponsored health insurance for all Marylanders such as the single-payer plan proposed by Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous could cost $24 billion a year, forcing lawmakers to significantly raise taxes, according to a nonpartisan analysis. |
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| The family of a homeless woman who died after collapsing on a patch of grass near a city shelter wants to know what happened in the last hours of her life. |
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| Liver cancer death rates jumped 43 percent between 2000 and 2016, according to a report released by the CDC. |
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| Nearly half of patients who go to urgent care clinics seeking treatment for a flu, cold or other conditions that don't require antibiotics received a |
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| The damaging effects of a concussion are well-known, and recent research finds the injuries are common among U.S. high school students. |
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| The Town of Bel Air is the latest local government in Maryland to join a nationwide movement to sue opioid manufacturers and distributors amid the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. |
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