In Sandtown, where Freddie Gray lived and the median household income is less than a quarter of Roland Park’s, the life expectancy is 70 years. That matches the average life expectancy in North Korea, an impoverished dictatorship where millions suffer from chronic undernourishment, according to the United Nations.
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Part 4 Unhealthy Baltimore: Former drug user faces medical bias
A former drug user, clean for 30 years, believes her past drug use — and doctors’ refusal to hear anything beyond that — was the main roadblock to an accurate diagnosis.
Part 3 Unhealthy Baltimore: Distrust in the hospital room
Bon Secours Hospital has been a fixture in the neighborhood since 1919, when it was opened by an order of nuns who served middle-class patients from all across the city. But today, few patients are affluent. The hospital, outpatient services and wellness center that compose the system primarily serve neighborhoods including Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park, predominantly black neighborhoods made famous in pop culture by TV shows like HBO’s “The Wire.”
Part 2 Unhealthy Baltimore: Hurdles to health
Sharlene Adams’ story is not about huge barriers to medical care but about a series of hurdles that block access to help for her and many other low-income residents in Baltimore. Those hurdles add up to large health care inequities.
Part 1 Unhealthy Baltimore: Barriers block path to better health care for poor
Residents of Baltimore’s poorer neighborhoods are plagued by rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and hypertension higher than in wealthier parts of the city. Those conditions lead to lives that are shorter and sicker than the lives of people who live in more affluent parts of town — evidence that the health care system is failing the city’s poor.
Maryland’s onetime mental hospitals cost the state millions of dollars annually
Six miles outside of Annapolis lie the decaying bones of a dinosaur. They don’t belong to a prehistoric animal, but to Crownsville Hospital Center, a mostly vacant former asylum that costs the State of Maryland around a million dollars a year. Many of the methods used to treat mental illness when Crownsville opened in 1911 have essentially gone extinct.
Van Hollen defeats Edwards in Md. Senate primary; Szeliga for GOP
Democrat Chris Van Hollen Tuesday won a closely-fought primary battle for the Maryland Senate, easily defeating fellow House member Donna Edwards for the seat being vacated by Barbara Mikulski. Van Hollen had 53% of the Democratic vote to Edwards’ 39%.
Raskin and Brown win Maryland Democratic primaries in contested congressional seats
A pair of longtime Maryland politicians — former Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and state Sen. Jamie Raskin — defeated several strong challengers to become the Democratic nominees for the 4th and 8th U.S. Congressional Districts, respectively.
Immigration is key issue in primary, especially among GOP voters
Immigration has been the focus of much debate during this election season and has been one of the animating issues behind the rise of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Democratic and Republican voters are deeply split over how they view the issue and which candidate they believe is best fit to address it. National polls show GOP voters generally consider illegal immigration to be a more important issue than Democratic voters do.
Campaign trade talk closely watched for impact on Md.
Presidential candidates in both parties are proposing changes to international trade policies that could have dramatic impacts not only on the United States in general, but also on busy trade centers like Maryland.
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