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Five Tips for High School Students Considering Premed 09/05/2022 08:00pm • Donning that white coat the first day of medical school may seem like a far-off dream for high school students who want to become physicians. But students can take several steps in high school to begin the long journey toward a career in medicine. At the top of the list is enrolling in the most rigo What Are Your Rights When It Comes to Your Apartment's Pet Policy? 09/05/2022 08:00pm • Most pet owners will say that their beloved pet is part of their family, but if you rent an apartment, condo or house, you may be subject to a few rules when it comes to pet ownership. "Companion animals provide us with so much and are integral members of the family for most Americans," says Katie J Cholesterol levels and the preventive power of purple produce 09/05/2022 05:55am • It's Cholesterol Education Month and a Northern Virginia doctor has perspective and advice about the blood fat that's both made by your body and comes from foods you eat. "Your good cholesterol is your HDL, and this is a level that you want to keep above 40. And your HDL is interesting, it acts l Disease expert says COVID testing not as important as immunity 09/04/2022 02:48pm • A program for ordering free COVID-19 tests from the federal government was suspended on Friday, as funding for the program ended. But an infectious disease expert says mass testing isn’t as necessary as immunity. “Most experts have, at this point, said mass testing is probably not going to ch Data Doctors: Tips for finding recently-added contacts 09/02/2022 05:31pm • Q: Help! I recently met someone very important who added themselves to my iPhone’s address book, but I can’t remember their name or find any way to see recently-added contacts. A: As sophisticated as Apple is in developing operating systems and apps, the Contacts app is a rather basic tool th 2 Fairfax Co. high schoolers develop walker that helps patients with Parkinson's disease 09/01/2022 09:51pm • Two Virginia high school students are receiving praise for what they did with their extra time during the pandemic. Kaavya Karthikeyan and Akanksha Tibrewala, both 17, of Chantilly High School, joined forces to design an automatic walker that helps improve the mobility of people living with Parki Arlington teenager seeks help to find person who stabbed him 08/30/2022 11:06pm • An Arlington, Virginia, teenager started his senior year in the intensive care unit after being stabbed while running on a popular local trail. Max, 17, whose parents asked his last name not be used, was in the middle of a 2-mile run on the Custis Trail on Saturday night, when he was attacked as Michael Hickey, former Howard Co. schools superintendent, dies at 84 08/30/2022 10:59pm • Michael Hickey, who was the superintendent for the Howard County Public Schools System in Maryland for 16 years, died Sunday at the age of 84. Hickey, a Columbia, Maryland, resident, took the role in 1984 after serving as the superintendent of St. Louis Park Public Schools in Minneapolis for eigh Brian Robinson returns to Commanders training camp after shooting 08/30/2022 08:45pm • After a failed carjacking left him shot in the leg, Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. returned to training camp in Virginia on Tuesday. (Washington Commanders via Twitter) After being shot in the leg during a failed carjacking attempt in D.C., Commanders running back Brian Ro How the Brian Robinson Jr. situation impacted Washington's roster moves 08/30/2022 04:50pm • How the Robinson Jr. situation impacted Washington's roster originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonFortunately, Brian Robinson Jr. the person is healthy and "in a really good place" after the attempted robbery on Sunday that ended in Robinson Jr. being shot multiple times.However, the Data: Most DC-area kids have already gotten COVID 08/30/2022 03:31pm • Kids are back in school this week, and while COVID-19 might still be on parents' minds, chances are their children already got it sometime over the past two years. New data from a CDC study show the vast majority of children -- just shy of 80% -- contracted the virus at some time over the past two Doctors, schools worry about the number of kids behind on immunizations 08/30/2022 10:51am • The COVID-19 pandemic has had many effects on children's health, and one of them is a lag in checkups and immunizations. Many parents put off routine checkups for their kids, choosing to avoid doctors' offices for anything except urgent and acute matters. Now those parents are being urged to get Data Doctors: How to examine Google's search sources 08/29/2022 06:31am • Q: What is the source of information Google provides when I use the "About this result" feature? A: Now, more than ever, it’s important to know the source of information you find online and Google’s attempt to provide more information about its search results called "About this result," which i Howard University School of Divinity dean discusses her new book on womanist theology 08/29/2022 05:17am • This is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference from our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. Yolanda Pierce, professor and dean at the Howard University School of Divinity, said she remembers having a moment when she realized that DC children's hospital harassed over trans youth services 08/27/2022 05:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Medical providers at Children's National Hospital in Washington have become the latest targets of social media campaigns harassing U.S. hospitals for the treatments they offer transgender youths. In an audio recording posted Thursday by the conservative Twitter account Libs of