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Andrea McDaniels
Health and Medicine Reporter
I am a health and medicine reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
Articles
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As new programs attemp to reinvent policing, the danger is repeating old disparities through new methods, one expert says.
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Arline C. Geronimus explains how she developed her influential theory of "weathering," while Issac Bailey shares his own shock of recognition.
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In Baltimore, violence has marred countless lives. But Baltimore Sun reporter Andrea McDaniels wanted to explore the deeper, long-lasting effects of violence. Her extended reporting crystalized in an award-winning three-part series. Here she shares the challenges she faced and lessons learned.
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A three-part series this month in The Baltimore Sun chronicled how community groups and social workers are helping kids learn to manage stress and regulate their emotions as a way to combat some side effects of living in violent neighborhoods.
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More needs to be done to address a hidden toll of violence that is creating a ripple of social ills in Baltimore, including hurting children's ability to learn, community advocates and health professionals say.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Baltimore is no stranger to violence, but in recent weeks it hit proportions that stunned even a city often numb to regular shootings and stabbings. Violence puts pressure on hospital emergency rooms and paramedics. Many victims don’t die and will stress the entire health system for years to come.