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Hospital System Deal Reached (06 March 10:30) |
| Gov. Martin O'Malley and Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson are expected to announce today that they have reached a two-year deal to stabilize the county's long-troubled hospi... |
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Contaminant Found in Heparin (06 March 10:30) |
| The Food and Drug Administration has detected a "contaminant" in many samples of Chinese-supplied heparin that may be the cause of hundreds of severe and sometimes deadly allergic reactions... |
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Effects of New Mental Health Laws May Be Limited, Some Say (06 March 10:30) |
| On Tuesday, the Virginia General Assembly approved some of the most sweeping changes in mental health law in a generation, but experts across the ideological spectrum said yesterday that th... |
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Cancer Risk Stays After Hormone Therapy (05 March 10:30) |
| Menopausal women who took estrogen and progesterone faced a small increased risk of cancer for more than two years after they stopped, according to the latest results of a major federal stu... |
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Drugs for Elderly More Costly, Study Finds (05 March 10:30) |
| Drugmakers increased prices by an average of 7.4 percent last year for the brand-name medicines most commonly prescribed to the elderly, according to the advocacy group AARP. |
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Study: Cancer Risk Persists After Quitting Hormone Therapy (05 March 02:39) |
| Menopausal women who took estrogen and progesterone faced a small increased risk for cancer for more than two years after they stopped, according to the latest results of a major federal st... |
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If the Shoe Fits, Start Running (04 March 10:30) |
| This is a story about running shoes, and don't let anyone like Bart Yasso, chief running officer of Runner's World magazine, hear you give them any other name. "When people call them sneake... |
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Honestly, I Could Not Help Him (04 March 10:30) |
| My patient had come for a routine doctor visit. He was a well-built, soft-spoken middle-aged man who was always polite, respectful and adhered meticulously to his HIV medication. He complai... |
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Attending to an Unattended Death (04 March 10:30) |
| Not long ago, my friend Liz had the kind of experience we all dread. After failing to reach a longtime friend on the phone, then rapping on her door, Liz entered her apartment with a buildi... |
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Immune Systems Increasingly On Attack (04 March 10:30) |
| First, asthma cases shot up, along with hay fever and other common allergic reactions, such as eczema. Then, pediatricians started seeing more children with food allergies. Now, experts are... |
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Tired Beyond Relief (04 March 10:30) |
| Are you beat? Tuckered out? Dragging, flagging or just plain pooped? |
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A Suspect Diagnosis (04 March 10:30) |
| Whenever doctors told Ruben Galiano that his wife, Olga, had multiple sclerosis, he tried not to look as though he didn't believe them. To the former hotel cook, her symptoms resembled thos... |
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Inside Info About Eating Out (04 March 10:30) |
| Eating out is a national pastime. On a typical day, 133 million Americans dine outside the home, according to the National Restaurant Association, which projects that we will spend $558 bil... |
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Despite City Law, Few Assisted Living Centers Licensed (03 March 10:30) |
| Most assisted living centers in the District have not been licensed or inspected eight years after the D.C. Council mandated government oversight of the facilities and set standards for suc... |
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The Golden Gate: A Bridge Too Deadly? (03 March 10:30) |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- The day Ken Baldwin decided to kill himself, he drove past his office and proceeded directly to the Golden Gate Bridge. Gazing at the Pacific Ocean over a railing only four... |
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A Bathhouse Immersed In Tradition (03 March 10:30) |
| Inside the 127-degree Red Clay Ball room, Kum Sun Hong, 54, and her husband, Song Hong, 59, nestled amid thousands of hazelnut-size spheres that covered the floor, a kind of grown-up sandbo... |
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Lifelong Nurse Was Born With the Caregiving Gene (02 March 10:30) |
| As a teenager, Rundy Hamblen dreamed of being an airline stewardess. She was born in 1921, so passenger service was still in its infancy, and a nursing degree, oddly enough, was one of the ... |
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Study Finds Dogs, Robots Cheer Elderly (01 March 02:56) |
| ST. LOUIS -- Dogs may have a hard time wrapping their paws around this one: Robotic competition is nipping at their heels in the man's-best-friend department. A study by Saint Louis Univers... |
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Non-Toxic Tots (01 March 10:30) |
| There's a six-week wait for a $15 stainless steel sippy cup made without harmful compounds. At the annual toy show in New York last month, retailers lined up to put in orders for a children... |
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Anthrax Ruling to Be Appealed (01 March 10:30) |
| An attorney for six Defense Department employees said yesterday that they will appeal a federal judge's dismissal of their lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's policy of compulsory anthrax va... |
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Va. Braces for Veterans' Needs (01 March 10:30) |
| Virginia officials are preparing for a sharp increase in requests for community mental health services from troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and they are concerned that the syste... |
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House Votes To Curb Lead In Products For Children (01 March 10:30) |
| Maryland would hire inspectors to enforce a ban on manufacturing, selling, importing or distributing toys and other children's products containing dangerous levels of lead under legislation... |
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Fenty Taps Md. Official To Direct Health Dept. (01 March 10:30) |
| D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty yesterday appointed Baltimore County's top-ranking public health official as director of the District's troubled Department of Health. |
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FDA Cites Problems at Chinese Plant Making Blood Thinner (29 February 10:30) |
| The Chinese plant at the center of a controversy over the safety of half the nation's supply of the blood thinning drug heparin had problems involving impurities, the quality and use of its... |
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New Plan to Target Children's Medical Issues (29 February 10:30) |
| The District will target some of the worst health problems affecting District youth, from obesity and asthma to infant mortality and teen pregnancy, through a new public-private partnership... |
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Inova Follows the Money (29 February 10:30) |
| Our good friends at Inova Health System are at it again. |
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USDA Rejects 'Downer' Cow Ban (29 February 10:30) |
| Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told Congress yesterday that he would not endorse an outright ban on "downer" cows entering the food supply or back stiffer penalties for regulatory violati... |
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Health Care Improves, GAO Says (28 February 10:30) |
| The Army has significantly improved it support for service members undergoing medical treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals, but it still faces shortages... |
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Orthopedic-Device Makers Accused of Paying Doctors (28 February 10:30) |
| Four makers of artificial hips and knees paid doctors more than $800 million in royalties and fees in four years to influence their choice of implants, a U.S. investigator told Congress. |
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Pact Would Give Global AIDS Fight Triple the Money (28 February 10:30) |
| House leaders from both parties and the White House yesterday reached agreement on a bill that would more than triple funding for the Bush administration's global AIDS program, already the ... |
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Panel Approves Global AIDS Spending Hike (28 February 04:29) |
| WASHINGTON -- A House committee on Wednesday voted to more than triple spending for a global AIDS program that has proven to be one of the Bush administration's most successful and popular ... |
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GAO: Walter Reed Improves Care, But Faces Staff Shortages (28 February 03:07) |
| The Army has significantly improved it support for service members undergoing medical treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals, but it still faces shortages... |
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In a Va. Lab, Forging Links To Speed Cancer Advances (27 February 10:30) |
| The tiny pieces of tumor, cut from 51 Italian cancer patients, arrived at a suburban Washington laboratory in boxes packed with dry ice. |
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5% of TB Cases Don't React to Some Drugs (27 February 10:30) |
| About one in every 20 new cases of tuberculosis worldwide is now resistant to two or more drugs, and in some regions of the former Soviet Union the proportion is closer to one in every five... |
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A Little Guy, a Long Trip and a Heart-Wrenching Homecoming (27 February 10:30) |
| After two months away, hundreds of miles from home in a Pennsylvania hospital, Everett Allan came back to Virginia yesterday. The baby arrived by ambulance, riding with the prayers of stran... |
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State Hopes to Attract Emerging Industry (27 February 10:30) |
| Boosting Maryland as a hub of nanobiotechnology research, legislators and higher education leaders joined yesterday to propose a $5 million state program to award research grants and lure p... |
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After Death, Parents Want School Sanitized (27 February 10:30) |
| Some parents at Bunker Hill Elementary School in Northeast Washington are demanding that the D.C. Health Department sanitize the building for possible staph contamination after the death of... |
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Nutrition Label Reading Made Easy (26 February 10:03) |
| Are Cheerios better to eat than shredded wheat? Is whole-wheat bread a wiser choice than rye or pumpernickel? How does orange juice stack up against pomegranate and V8? And if the choice at... |
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Why All The Drug Alerts? (26 February 10:30) |
| If it seems as though the Food and Drug Administration has been issuing a new drug safety warning almost every week, that's because, for the past three months, it has. Since early November,... |
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Counting Calories and Everything Else (26 February 10:30) |
| My husband issued a clear directive as I left to buy groceries one recent evening. I had planned to make one of his favorite dishes: crab-stuffed manicotti topped with alfredo sauce -- crea... |
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Grocers Aim to Tell You How Your Food Measures Up (26 February 10:30) |
| If you're like most people trying to do the right thing, you have probably spent time pondering the nutritional merits of many foods. |
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Less Time for Grandparenting (26 February 10:30) |
| He has gray hair, a wrinkled Clint Eastwood grin and an artificial knee, and he's wheeling a stroller to the park. Not gramps, but an older dad, a 60-plus father of young children -- the Ne... |
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Yes. Tiny, Evil -- And in My Bed (26 February 10:30) |
| It took me a while to figure out what had gone so wrong in our bedroom. |
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For a Lifelike Workout, Add Motion, Instability (26 February 10:30) |
| You may have noticed it on the fringes of your gym: the trainer coaxing a client to stand on a squishy Bosu ball while simultaneously lifting dumbbells; or, back on terra firma, the muscly ... |
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Moving From Fright to Flight (26 February 10:30) |
| My hands are clammy, my stomach is queasy, my legs are shaking and my mouth is dry. But I have just decided, after eight anxious years, to try to overcome my fear of flying. |
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Sleep Tight . . . (26 February 10:30) |
| With the increase in travel and the demise of pesticides such as DDT, bedbugs have made a comeback in homes and hotels. But how extensive is their resurgence? And what if you actually have ... |
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Hmm. Tiny, Evil -- And Everywhere? (26 February 10:30) |
| NEW YORK -- Nobody had seen one in decades. Then, five years ago, they started showing up in homes and hotels across the country, prompting a flood of calls to pest control professionals. ... |
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Trying Some Disney Attitude to Help Cure Walter Reed (25 February 10:30) |
| Fifty medical workers -- doctors, nurses, therapists and administrators among them -- sat in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center gazing at a slide of Donald Duck on a screen. |
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Simple Question Defines Complex Health Debate (24 February 10:30) |
| The defining difference between the Democratic presidential candidates on the top domestic issue in their recent debate and throughout the campaign has been their contrasting views on a see... |
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A Case of a Family Services Job Well Done, or Overdone? (24 February 10:30) |
| On the Thursday before Labor Day, while Julianna Caplan was changing the diaper on one of her twins, she heard a dull thud. She turned around to see her other 8-month-old trying to push her... |
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