Health

There are more than 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities nationwide but only four have medical schools in operation, something Morgan State University will change by 2024 with a new school.

The founding dean and the president of MSU's proposed College of Osteopathic Medecine — Dr. John Sealey and Dr. Barbara Ross Lee, respectively — describe the goals of the new academic facility, the first HBCU medical school to open in decades.

We’ll go On the Record with the director of the Hopkins Tobacco Treatment Clinic. What does it take to give up smoking? How do you shift someone’s identity from smoker to nonsmoker? We hear how mindfulness and medication can make breaking the habit easier.

The emergency physician and public health advocate discusses the latest on continuing RSV, flu and COVID-19 threats, and answers your health questions.

Hearing aids are now available to purchase without a doctor’s visit. Who is best suited for an over-the-counter hearing aid? And will a broader market lead to lower costs? Plus, the potential of magic mushrooms to lift stubborn depression. We get a health innovation check-up!

A Baltimore Black Mental Health Alliance professional recommends carving out personal time, making reasonable plans and more to manage sadness prompted by the holiday season.

We’ll go On the Record to look at the decline in U.S. life expectancy. COVID, overdoses, and other threats pulled the years we can expect to live from a peak of nearly 79 in 2014 -- to 76 years. How to reverse the trend?

Despite a funding veto by outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan, the Maryland Prescription Drug Price Affordability Board is back on track with big plans in 2023.

We’ll go On the Record with three men brought together by a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s. They met in a local support group of the Alzheimer’s Association, bonded, and call themselves “the Optimistics.” We hear how they still find joy.

The 34,000-square-foot building is under development at the corner of Ashland and Rutland avenues in East Baltimore.