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Column: Steps you should take before ditching that printer 07/20/2017 09:21pm • Q: Do I need to do anything to my laser/copier/fax printer before I get rid of it? A: Most of us are very aware of the dangers of disposing of our computers, smartphones and tablets without first wiping them clean of our personal information, pictures and files, but not so much with our printers. Viagra-Like Ingredient Found in Coffee Product Part of Reason for Recall 07/20/2017 08:00pm • The Food and Drug Administration has discovered a number of undeclared ingredients in an instant coffee mix -- one of which will likely turn some heads. That undeclared ingredient is desmethyl carbodenafil, which is similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. T 10 Mistakes People Make When Living With Depression 07/20/2017 08:00pm • Mental illness is difficult to treat, in no small part because patients' thought processes are affected significantly. With depression, patients have distorted and unhealthy views of themselves and their illness, which can impair smart decision-making and get in the way of finding and following a p Does COPD Have an Autoimmune Component? 07/20/2017 08:00pm • The human immune system is a complex network of organs, tissues and cells that work together to defend the body from germs, microbes and other foreign organisms that can cause disease. It's an ingenious system that, when working right, helps protect us from outside invaders, but sometimes it can go Teenagers in Montgomery Co. get a taste of the working world 07/20/2017 04:07pm • WHEATON, Md. -- It's blazing hot, but seven teenagers are hustling a mock patient onto a wheeled cot and into an ambulance, and they've got just five minutes to do it. Dominique Melo, 17, is told to hop up onto the cot and start hands-only CPR during the timed exercise. Her "supervisors" are yell What's the Connection Between the Ovaries and Breast Cancer? 07/19/2017 08:00pm • People often think of body parts in isolation rather than as part of a complex, integrated whole. Especially when it comes to discussions of disease in certain parts of the body, and breast cancer in particular, the tendency can be to think of the breasts in isolation. But the breasts and the canc Why You Should Continue to Vaccinate Your Kids 07/19/2017 08:00pm • When I was a pediatric resident at Stanford University in the late 1990s, I feared that every baby with a fever had contracted pneumococcal pneumonia, a disease that spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes. In its most serious form, it can lead to life-altering brain damage or even death. Is Your Colorectal Cancer Tumor on the Right or Left Side of Your Body? 07/19/2017 08:00pm • Cancers that develop in the colon are not all the same. Where they originate in the colon has important survival and treatment implications. Geography of the Bowel At 5-feet long, the colon makes up the bulk of the large intestine, which is also called the bowel. The colon removes nutrients from t How to Talk to Your Friends and Family About Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 07/18/2017 08:00pm • If you know you have polycystic ovary syndrome, you're one of the lucky ones. Yes, you heard me correctly. While PCOS affects 5 to 10 percent of women worldwide, less than half of us are diagnosed. That means there are millions of women struggling, with no idea why they have symptoms like obesity, HSAs Offer Benefits for Older Investors 07/18/2017 08:00pm • Tax-free health savings accounts would have a bigger role for Americans under the ill-fated Senate Republican proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. But many people have them already, or are thinking of starting up, raising tricky questions about what to do once they're also eligible for Medicare This 8-Year-Old Boy Received the First Double-Hand Transplant 07/18/2017 08:00pm • A boy who lost both his hands now has two new ones. When Zion Harvey was 2 years old, he fell victim to sepsis (a potentially deadly side effect of an infection) and needed both of his hands amputated. Now, 18 months after a double-hand transplant, Zion can write and go to the bathroom, feed and dr DC allows doctors to prescribe life-ending medications 07/18/2017 05:47am • WASHINGTON — Doctors and pharmacies in the nation’s capital are now allowed to prescribe life-ending medications to terminally ill patients. The Death with Dignity Act of 2016 became law with the signature of Mayor Muriel Bowser in December of 2016. Now the Bowser administration has announced Understanding Targeted Therapies for Lung Cancer 07/17/2017 08:00pm • Lung cancer is not a single, homogeneous disease. Lung tumors can form in different types of cells in the lung, which drives how they grow and divide. Furthermore, some tumors have very specific molecular changes (mutations) that cause cancer cells to grow, divide and spread. Targeted therapies eff What Is Diabetic Retinopathy? 07/17/2017 08:00pm • There are plenty of complications that can arise from diabetes, but one you may not have considered is diabetic retinopathy. Without regular screening, diabetic retinopathy can lead to blindness. "Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease that affects the tissues in the back of the eye -- called the r Should I Join a Breast Cancer Support Group? 07/17/2017 08:00pm • If you're coping with a devastating or chronic illness, you may find that joining a support group can be a helpful way of working through the various emotions you'll experience over the course of your journey, giving you access, as Breastcancer.org notes, to "groups of people in similar life situat