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Baltimore Clinic Supports Older LGBTQ+ Population’s Needs Through ElderPride Program: ‘They Simply Age Differently’
June 22, 2022 -
 Chase Brexton Health Care, a medical clinic in Baltimore, has a program that meets the unique needs of older members of the LGBTQ+ community.  The ElderPride program provides the particularly vulnerable population with primary healthcare, dentistry, behavioral health and counseling, support groups, special events and financial and legal connections. “They’re often providing care in isolation, they might be disconnected from their family of origin, they’re much more likely to be childless,” said Sam McClure, Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ+ Health Equity at Chase Brexton.  

 

Read More: WJZ CBS Baltimore
Don’t knock the Ziploc: Our expert reporter has some food ideas for your next Orioles game
June 22, 2022 -

Two Ziploc bags full of spaghetti got past the security guards at Camden Yards with nary a second glance. That wasn’t the case once we sat down in section 360, far above left field, stuck forks in our saucy mounds of noodles and took a picture “for the ‘gram” before digging in. We held our bags of spaghetti aloft as the Orioles played the Tampa Bay Rays. Someone a few rows behind us snapped a shot. They posted it on the Internet and the photo almost immediately went im-pasta-bly viral.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Chesapeake Bay recreation area to balance tourism, what’s right for environment, lawmakers say
June 21, 2022 -

The creation of a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area has entered the next phase of becoming a reality. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. John Sarbanes, both D-Md, announced Tuesday that the working group behind the initiative had identified 10 principles behind the recreational area that included prioritizing environmental stewardship and balancing land rights with realistic tourism goals.

Read More: Delmarva Now
Mayor Brandon Scott Touts Success Of 2022 AFRAM Festival
June 21, 2022 -
Mayor Brandon Scott said that this year’s large and successful AFRAM Festival coupled with the other events surrounding Juneteenth shows “the promise” of Baltimore. The crowd of people that showed up to Druid Hill Park to celebrate Juneteenth or spend time with their family for Father’s Day is an indicator of “the bright future that we have ahead,” he told WJZ’s Tim Williams and Sina Gebre-Ab.
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‘Every word matters’: Trauma Responsive Frederick promotes empathy, understanding of trauma
June 21, 2022 -

Two and a half years ago, Inga James drew up a five-page plan for making Frederick County a trauma-responsive community. Baltimore had just passed the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act, which set the mayor and city agencies on a path toward improving their ability to work with traumatized residents. Frederick could do the same, James figured.

Read More: Frederick News-Post
In this 2017 photo, captured inside a clinical setting, a health care provider was placing a bandage on the injection site of a child, who had just received a seasonal influenza vaccine. Children younger than 5-years-old, and especially those younger than 2-years-old, are at high risk of developing serious flu-related complications. A flu vaccine offers the best defense against flu, and its potentially serious consequences, and can also reduce the spread of flu to others.
Shots for tots: Maryland’s COVID-19 experts push for parents to protect little kids as vaccines are recommended for the youngest ages
June 21, 2022 -

A year and a half after the rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccines, health officials are planning to start giving shots this week to the last remaining group: babies and young children. There are about 19 million kids ages 6 months to 5 years around the country, including 358,000 in Maryland, and vaccines for them from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech could both be available early this week.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Maryland reports first presumed case of monkeypox virus
June 17, 2022 -

The first suspected Maryland case of human monkeypox, a rare but contagious infection that has emerged in the United States, has been identified by the state health department. A state resident presumed to have the infection showed mild symptoms and did not require hospital care, the Maryland Department of Health said Thursday. The person is in isolation and waiting for test results to confirm an infection. Human monkeypox is a virus that causes symptoms similar to smallpox, although typically less severe.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Keith Davis Jr. lawyers want Mosby held in contempt for gag order violation
June 17, 2022 -

The lawyers for a Baltimore man facing his fifth trial in a 2015 murder are seeking to have city State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby held in contempt for comments she made in a radio interview soon after a judge issued a gag order blocking lawyers from discussing the case. A motion filed Tuesday accused Mosby of violating the order when she mentioned details of the case against Keith Davis Jr. during a radio interview on WYPR. The motion also asks Judge John Nugent to throw out the charges against Davis as a sanction for the violation.

Read More: The Daily Record
University System of Maryland moves toward removing SAT/ACT requirement
June 17, 2022 -

Following nationwide trends, the University System of Maryland is debating removing standardized test scores, such as the SAT and ACT, as an admissions requirement for incoming first-year students. A work group of provosts and institutional admissions representatives, convened by USM to evaluate the testing requirement, has recommended that the system amend its Policy on Undergraduate Admissions to eliminate the SAT and ACT as a systemwide admissions requirement at all system universities.

Read More: The Daily Record
AFRAM Festival To Bring High-Profile & Local Artists To Baltimore This Weekend
June 17, 2022 -
The largest African-American culture celebration on the east coast has garnered nationally and locally known artists. AFRAM 2022 is a two-day festival that coincides with Juneteenth, the commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in 1865 that officially became a federal holiday last year.
Read More: WJZ

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