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Explore Biomedical Engineering, Other Hot Jobs for Future Engineers 03/24/2016 08:00pm • As a senior in high school, Melanie McWade knew she wanted to apply engineering science to medicine, repairing the body's worn parts and coming up with new medical devices and drugs. "Brains controlling prosthetic limbs? As an 18-year-old, I wanted to be part of that," she says. So she completed an Should Health Care Work Like Priceline? 03/24/2016 08:00pm • Priceline burst onto the scene in 1997 with its name-your-own-price service that let people state how much they are willing to pay for hotel rooms, flights and other travel services. The concept has since been tried on groceries and gasoline. Now some people say it makes sense to offer health care t 6 Health Care Jobs You Don't Need to Go to Medical School For 03/24/2016 08:00pm • While attending medical school may lead to a profession that is rewarding financially and offers the excitement of working in a medical environment, other advanced health care degrees can also lead to a fulfilling health care profession. Prospective grad students may consider the following occupati Bethesda boy hopes to inspire nation with his cancer fight 03/24/2016 03:38pm • WASHINGTON — He waged a very personal war on cancer and won — and now a 12-year-old middle schooler from Bethesda is taking his fight nationwide. Ryan Darby was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 6 years old. He endured three-and-a-half years of treatment that he describ Column: Tips for testing computer hardware 03/24/2016 03:36pm • Q: I’ve spent more than eight hours trying to install Windows 10 from scratch on my computer, but no matter what I do, it fails. What am I missing? A: Unless you have a really old machine, doing a clean installation of Windows 10 should go relatively smoothly. Without examining your system, Rural Medicine, Specialty Careers Draw Health Care Grads 03/23/2016 08:00pm • When she was a child living on a ranch in Montana and attending elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse with four other children, a career as a physician didn't occur to KayCee Gardner. She'd never needed one. For a long time, says Gardner, 31, "I didn't even know doctors existed." However, sh Get a Dose of Public Health Training as a Medical Student 03/23/2016 08:00pm • As part of her dual degree program in medicine and public health at the University of Wisconsin, fourth-year student Nayeli Spahr, 32, devotes much of her time to the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers. Here, deep in the underserved south side of Milwaukee, Spahr runs two-hour group well-chi Bid to ban tanning-bed use by minors in Montgomery Co. gains traction 03/23/2016 05:18am • WASHINGTON — Spring break. Beach week. Prom. These three events can send teenagers — mainly young girls — racing to the local tanning salon. But many dermatologists, and some local lawmakers, want to put a stop to that. Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker suggested a bill to ba Poll: Parents wary of online ratings for doctors 03/23/2016 05:11am • WASHINGTON — You may rely on ratings websites to pick a restaurant or a plumber. But should you use them to help find a doctor? A recent poll conducted by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan found that many parents around the country are wary of online reviews of p Blended Learning Options Rise at Medical Schools 03/22/2016 08:00pm • When Phil Koehler completed his pediatrics rotation as a third-year student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, the in-person clinical training wasn't the only requirement. He also participated in online discussion boards with clinicians and other students and viewed computer-based The Pitfalls of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Medicine 03/22/2016 08:00pm • In recent years, prime-time television and mainstream media publications have been inundated with direct-to-consumer ads and marketing materials for prescription drugs. Most often these drugs are the newest and most expensive choices available, and they're heavily advertised by companies that have i Fellowships Offer a Path to Graduate Programs, Study Abroad 03/22/2016 08:00pm • Grad school always appealed to Jacob Calvert, but it wasn't until late in his junior year at the University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign that the bioengineering major zeroed in on a subject area that really spoke to him: complex systems mathematics. After discovering a center focused on that field 14 Ways to Protect Seniors From Falls 03/22/2016 08:00pm • Fallout from falls can be devastating.It's hard to overstate the damage falls can do. At least 250,000 older Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures yearly, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the vast majority are the result of falling. Broken wrists, arms and ankl Graduate Certificate Programs Offer Quick Path to Career Upgrade 03/21/2016 08:00pm • Mandi Martini of Cincinnati considered getting her MBA. Instead, the medical devices sales rep for Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, enrolled last fall in a 12-credit graduate certificate program in business foundations at the University of Cincinnati's Carl H. Lindner College of Busin As Health Care Evolves, Consider Why to Go to Med School 03/21/2016 08:00pm • Weighing the pros and cons of applying to medical school can be overwhelming. The average student loan debt for medical school graduates is more than $180,000, not including undergraduate debt. Often students reach age 28 before seeing their first real paychecks. Financial compensation alone will n