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For more than a year, Baltimore Sun reporter Andrea K. McDaniels and photographer Lloyd Fox have examined the unseen impact of violence — on children, caregivers and victims’ relatives. McDaniels wrote the articles while participating in the 2014 National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of t
Baltimore has the fifth-highest homicide rate of major U.S. cities. The brutal killings leave behind thousands of families who must grapple with the debilitating aftermath. The grieving relatives of the murdered are little noticed after the funerals and the candlelight vigils.
Rhode Island’s prisons are grappling with a dilemma. Hundreds of inmates have hepatitis C. New drugs can cure it. But they’re so expensive the department of corrections can’t afford them for every inmate who’s sick.
When a neighbor waving a gun shot Charles "Chuck" Ropka in the head, the 18-year-old was left paralyzed on his left side. Instead of seeing him move out on his own, his mother suddenly had to make a place to care for him in the family's basement, where he still lives — 35 years later.
In Austin, Texas and across the U.S., nonprofits are helping connect the country's uninsured Latina population with health care resources in their communities.
For more than a year, Baltimore Sun reporter Andrea K. McDaniels and photographer Lloyd Fox have examined the unseen impact of violence — on children, caregivers and victims’ relatives.
One of the only supportive housing options for the mentally ill operates without regulation or oversight—creating a dark economy in which bad operators act with impunity and an easily defrauded population gets no justice, an SN&R investigation reveals.
The Environmental Protection Agency has designated a sizable portion of Michigan's Wayne County as failing to meet federal air quality standards for (SO2) sulfur dioxide. Air pollution violations and sulfur dioxide emissions are major environmental justice issues in Wayne County.
Citing successes using cellphones to monitor health in remote corners of Africa and Asia, where mobile networks can be easier to come by than landlines, many people hope mobile technology can bolster the health of rural Americans. But challenges abound.
