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A New Predictive Tool Will Improve Counseling of Patients Considering Epilepsy Surgery 09/10/2017 08:00pm • Specialized surgery is a promising option for many people experiencing epilepsy who continue to have seizures despite medical treatment. Epilepsy surgery has significantly improved the lives of many thousands of adults and children worldwide, and experts now routinely consider this option whenever Macron to visit Caribbean as France defends hurricane prep 09/10/2017 05:51pm • MARIGOT, St. Martin (AP) — The French government on Sunday defended its hurricane preparations for the hard-hit Caribbean islands of St. Martin and St. Barts, rejecting criticism by political opponents and by islanders who felt abandoned as their homes and towns were devastated. French Presiden Prince George's Co. police ID suspect who set pregnant woman on fire 09/09/2017 10:09pm • WASHINGTON — Prince George's County police has identified the man who set a woman on fire in a Capitol Heights, Maryland, house. Thirty-four-year-old Laquinn Phillips, of Southeast D.C., was arrested Friday for starting a fire in a second-floor apartment in a three-story building on the 1400 bl Should you enroll in Equifax's TrustID Premier after massive data breach? 09/08/2017 10:16pm • Q: Is it true that if I enroll in the free Equifax protection program I can’t be part of a class-action lawsuit? A: In what may be one of the most-damaging data breaches to date, Equifax, one of the big three credit bureaus, announced that 143 million U.S.-based consumers may be affected by a d Police arrest suspect who set pregnant woman on fire in Md. 09/08/2017 04:43pm • WASHINGTON -- Prince George’s County police arrested a man accused of setting a pregnant woman on fire in her Capitol Heights apartment Friday morning. The fire started around 11:45 a.m. in a second-floor apartment in a three-story building at 1405 Elkwood Ln. When officials arrived, they found Metro issues refund over rejected ads for controversial writer's book 09/08/2017 04:17am • WASHINGTON — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is getting his money back for ads that Metro pulled down this summer after rider complaints, even as he tries to get them put back up across the system. In new court filings opposing Yiannopoulos’s effort to get the book ads put back up, M Are Seasonal Allergies and COPD Connected? 09/07/2017 08:00pm • For those of us with seasonal allergies, also called hay fever or allergic rhinitis, the struggle is real -- especially when the plant you're allergic to is in bloom. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that "allergies are an overreaction of the immune system to substances that g 2018 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Public Universities 09/06/2017 08:00pm • Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then -- if you're lucky -- choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you'll call home for the next few years. To steer you in the right direction, U.S. News su Doctors Took Out a Nearly Two-Pound Stone From a Man's Body 09/06/2017 08:00pm • If you have pain that isn't going away, you might end up taking a trip to the emergency room. And if cases like this one are any indication, that trip might reveal a surprisingly big problem. According to a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, a 64-year-old man went to Improving Margin Assessment in Lumpectomy 09/06/2017 08:00pm • For many years, lumpectomy has been the most common surgical procedure to treat breast cancer. In a 2014 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers examined medical records of more than 132,000 women undergoing treatment for early-stage breast cancer, "defined as having a Tackling High Blood Pressure in Kids 09/06/2017 08:00pm • If you're the parent of a young child, it's likely you've asked at a recent medical checkup about how your child's height and weight compared with peers. Measuring how kids are growing is not only something that's done to satisfy parents' curiosity, it also helps in determining if a child is growin Flexible robot snakes into colon for surgery 09/06/2017 04:10am • WASHINGTON — A medical robot recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used in a first-of-its-kind worldwide colon and rectal surgery at George Washington Hospital — performed through the patient’s anus. Similar to equipment used during a colonoscopy, the Medrobotics Fl What You Should Know About Esophageal Cancer 09/05/2017 08:00pm • Until recently, cancer of the esophagus was relatively uncommon in the U.S., accounting for about 15,000 new cases of cancer per year. Now, the incidence of one type of esophageal cancer is on the rise. What Is Esophageal Cancer? The esophagus is a tube in your chest that moves food from your mout Health, Family and Lifestyle: What Americans Can Learn from Island Villagers of the South Pacific 09/05/2017 08:00pm • During the last month, I've had the privilege of living and working in a medical clinic on a remote South Pacific island off the coast of Fiji known as Batiki. The island, only 12 square kilometers in size, is home to 234 native Fijians spread across four villages. The island and its people were de Is the Label for the Prescription You're Taking Outdated? 09/04/2017 08:00pm • What exactly do you know about the prescription medication you're taking? If you read the pill bottle itself, besides the drug name, you'll see things like the medication strength and instructions for taking it properly. And the drug labeling information approved by the Food and Drug Administration