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How Germy Is Your Gym? 05/16/2017 08:00pm • You go to the gym to get more fit, lose weight or improve your health. The last thing you'd expect, then, is to actually become less healthy by visiting the gym. But it happens. I'm not talking about the inherent risks associated with exercise or even the effects of chronic overtraining sometimes se The Overlooked Pregnancy Epidemic: Premature Birth 05/15/2017 08:00pm • Premature birth, defined as delivering between 20 to 37 weeks of pregnancy, is a significant global health concern that often goes unnoticed. In a normal, healthy pregnancy, a woman may be more concerned about the possibility of miscarriage or her baby being born with a genetic disease than whether Cybersecurity Investors Cashing in on WannaCry Virus 05/14/2017 08:00pm • The PureFunds ISE Cyber Security exchange-traded fund (ticker: HACK) opened up by more than 2.5 percent on Monday after a new cyberattack hit more than 200,000 devices in over 150 different countries over the weekend. It's becoming increasingly clear that the next era of security will be a digital o How to Prevent Malaria While Traveling Abroad -- and Treating It at Home 05/08/2017 08:00pm • An infectious disease typically transmitted by a female Anapheles mosquito infected with a parasite, malaria can kill fast. The World Health Organization estimates that 429,000 people died from the infectious disease in 2015. Prevention and treatment efforts the world over have, fortunately, decrea 3, including pregnant woman, retest positive for Zika in DC 05/08/2017 07:58pm • WASHINGTON — After a faulty formula led to unreliable Zika test results at a D.C. lab last year, the retesting of all affected samples has concluded. The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences said that two women and a man, who had tested negative, have been told that they in fact tested positive DC ranks No. 2 at zapping mosquitoes 05/03/2017 10:16am • WASHINGTON — D.C. has topped charts on many occasions: for being the most frugal city in America, for having terrible traffic, for being one of the nation's best cities. Now, the District rises to the top once again — as the second best city in the U.S. at zapping mosquitoes. Pest co Expect more mosquitoes this summer 05/01/2017 04:54am • WASHINGTON — The buzz of mosquitoes could be more prevalent this year in the D.C. area due to the warmer temperatures. The cold-intolerant blood suckers, according to some experts, most likely had more of a chance of surviving the winter, since there were many mild days throughout the winter s Unusual humpback whale deaths concentrated in Va. 04/28/2017 05:18pm • WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have launched an investigation into an unusually high number of humpback whale deaths along the East Coast, with Virginia experiencing one of the highest concentrations of fatalities. As of Friday afternoon, 42 humpback whales have died since January 2016 in the Fraley 2016 Movie Guide 04/27/2017 02:02pm • 2016 MOVIE GUIDE   4 STARS "La La Land" -  Stone & Gosling are heartbreaking in Chazelle's dazzling L.A. musical "Moonlight" - Barry Jenkins explores three life stages of gay black man's identity struggle "Fences" - Denzel stars/directs Viola Davis in brilliant adaptation of On a Scale From 1 to 10: Most Painful Medical Conditions 04/20/2017 08:00pm • Off-the-charts painfulThe worst type of pain? It's whatever pain you personally suffer from. But experts and patients agree: Certain medical conditions are especially excruciating. When health care providers ask patients to rate their pain on a scale from 1 to 10, these conditions -- whether acute o Today in History 04/08/2017 12:00am • Today in History Today is Saturday, April 8, the 98th day of 2017. There are 267 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman seized the American steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. (The Supreme Court later ruled that Truman had oversteppe How Online Identity Thieves Are Getting Smarter 04/06/2017 08:00pm • Your credit card may now have a security chip inside it, but you're as much at risk for identity theft as you ever were. Javelin Strategy & Research recently came out with its 2017 Identity Fraud Study and concluded that 6.15 percent of consumers, or 15.4 million Americans, were victims of ident 3 Things You Must Know About the New Electronic Devices Travel Restriction 04/05/2017 08:00pm • In case you haven't heard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security implemented a new rule last week barring airline passengers from taking laptops and other large portable devices in their carry-on luggage (think: tablets, e-readers, electronic games and cameras) on direct flights to the U.S. from Zika birth defects likely going underreported 04/04/2017 09:28pm • WASHINGTON — The Zika virus causes birth defects in about one in 10 pregnancies of women who are infected, but it's likely the numbers are higher, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only one in four babies born to Zika-infected moms get brain scans, the CDC reported Before an MS Diagnosis, Rule Out These Conditions First 03/30/2017 08:00pm • You may wind up in a neurologist's office if your primary care doctor suspects that you have multiple sclerosis. Maybe your symptoms led you there, or maybe it was the result of a magnetic resonance imaging brain scan. But that doesn't mean you actually have MS, the progressive autoimmune disease t