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Medical Schools Rally to Make Classes More Diverse 06/08/2016 08:00pm • As a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Lynn Pauls provided city residents with a service she didn't have as a child: health care. "It was one of the first things that I learned was unequal about the world," says Pauls, who graduated from Johns Hopkins What to Consider If You May Depend on Medicaid for Nursing Care 06/08/2016 08:00pm • Live long enough, and you may face a difficult transition: You need nursing home care, but your assets will run out long before your life ends. If you have no assets, Medicaid will pay for nursing care, but only once you've used up most of your own resources. Scrambling to qualify for Medicaid can Doctors rethink how to treat diabetes-depression link 06/08/2016 04:19am • WASHINGTON — A diabetic is twice as likely to have depression as someone without diabetes. And that fact is prompting some doctors to rethink how they provide care. More and more, doctors are looking for the depression-diabetes link in their patients, and they are shifting to new comprehensive Arlington lawyer competes to be American Ninja Warrior 06/08/2016 02:45am • Arlington resident Mike Chick is a 39-year-old husband and father of two and one of the area’s top defense attorneys. He’s also an American Ninja Warrior. Chick had been a fan of the NBC show for years and, to the loving skepticism of his wife, he would claim that some day he was goin The 5 Best New York City Hotels for Art Aficionados 06/06/2016 08:00pm • The Big Apple has always been a magnet for artists and their fans. The visionaries who frequented Andy Warhol's famous studio, The Factory, reads like a who's who in the modern art world. And uptown, the sprawling Metropolitan Museum of Art serves the country's largest art museum, featuring more tha Placentas Eaten After Birth Can Be Treated as Biohazard in Some States 06/06/2016 08:00pm • Eating placenta after labor has received a lot of buzz from celebrities who say it has helped them fight postpartum depression and increased their milk production, but a recent case in Mississippi highlights that the practice can be complicated and expensive for some women. That's because the placen What happens when your child's sleep cycle goes out of sync? 06/06/2016 01:30am • WASHINGTON — Teenagers sometimes do not have the healthiest sleep patterns, but if it becomes suddenly erratic, it should be a cause for concern. That's what single father Adam Forschner thought when his son Nathaniel went through troubling changes. "Between his eighth and ninth grade year, he How to protect your health before traveling abroad 06/03/2016 05:23am • WASHINGTON — Planning a summer vacation is about much more than booking hotels and making plane reservations, especially when heading out of the country. Travelers also need to safeguard their health before taking off by getting the proper immunizations. The first order of business is t Column: Tips for speeding up your computer 06/02/2016 08:10am • Q: Any suggestions on how to speed up a 2-year-old Windows 7 laptop that’s become so slow that it’s driving me crazy? Do I have to buy a new computer every two years? A: No matter how much money you spend on a computer, if you don’t maintain it regularly, it can become noticeably slower in Local doctor guides parents on how to talk to kids about sex 06/02/2016 05:56am • Dr. Sheila Overton, OB-GYN at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Md., is the author of "Before It's Too Late — A Parent's Guide to Teens, Sex and Sanity." (Courtesy Dr. Sheila Overton) Editor's Note: The story has been changed to reflect that in 1997, 1.2 million Ameri Preventing Medical Errors: What You Need to Know 06/01/2016 08:00pm • According to a new study published in the BMJ, medical errors now rank as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., with only heart disease and cancer accounting for more deaths. While I do believe the latest study overestimates deaths related to errors, it's clear that these mistakes -- rangin Taking Steps to Cure Hepatitis C 06/01/2016 08:00pm • Not so long ago, treating hepatitis C was a decidedly bleak affair. And the prospect of curing the potentially life-threatening virus, or infection -- which causes liver disease and inflammation of the organ -- was a longshot. As a result, many patients opted to forgo treatment. Dr. Mark Sulkowski, AC/DC returns to DC in September with Axl Rose 06/01/2016 07:46am • WASHINGTON — AC/DC will rock the Verizon Center Saturday, Sept. 17 as part of the band's 10 final shows during its "Rock or Bust World Tour." The show originally had been set for March 17 but was postponed after doctors for frontman Brian Johnson told him to stop touring because he was at ris Dolly Parton comes to Wolf Trap with first major tour in 25 years 06/01/2016 01:18am • WASHINGTON — Some musicians have angelic voices. Others have commanding stage presences. Others yet weave poetry through the art of songwriting. But throughout the course of music history, few have combined all three gifts like the golden vocals, bubbly persona and visual storytelling of th How to Save Big on Eye Care 05/31/2016 08:00pm • Bad vision can be more than just a nuisance, it can become a literal financial headache. Working the cost of an optometrist visit and new glasses or contacts into your budget can be a real pain. It's often one of those annual expenses that can fall right through the cracks when you set your budget.