WASHINGTON -- Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
Vicki Schulkin's cough was driving her crazy. Every time she caught a cold or her allergies flared, so would the wracking, phlegmy paroxysms that had waxed and waned for nearly four years.
Russom Ghebrai walks the corridors of Greater Southeast Community Hospital with quiet authority. Seventy hours a week, he dons the white coat of his profession and attends to patients on the fringes of medical care.
Seventy-five years ago, aviator Charles Lindbergh turned the controls of his pontoon plane over to his co-pilot, wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, while flying above Iceland. He thrust a makeshift metal arm holding a sticky glass plate from the cockpit. He wanted to see if the winds high aloft the Earth...
Several years ago, shortly after arriving in the United States, Lyubov Belyayeva suffered a massive heart attack. She had left Russia to be with her daughter in Silver Spring, and she spoke no English.
It started as a pesky cold -- not surprising given the winter season, two back-to-back cross-country trips, little sleep and mingling with hundreds of people.
When Cheryl Lawrence got a diagnosis of breast cancer, her surgeon told her she could save her breast. But Lawrence decided to have it removed anyway. And then she decided to have the healthy one removed, too.
Parents who want to reduce their infants' exposure to phthalates, chemicals suspected of impairing male reproductive function, should not apply baby lotions or powders -- except for medical reasons. So concludes a study published in the journal Pediatrics.
Q I have been looking for a boxing/exercise program in the area (around Rockville, Bethesda, maybe Northwest D.C.). On TV I have seen "regular" people get in the ring and spar "gently" for fun and exercise, and I think my husband would love this. Do you know of any place in the area that offers t...
Educators nationwide are protesting a Bush administration move to curtail hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding for disabled students that could force some schools already in budget straits to trim health services or cut back instructional programs.
A mild influenza season has turned miserable for many in the region, with doctors' offices and hospitals reporting a sharp increase in achy, nauseated and feverish patients.
A revised regulation that directs Howard County school officials to notify parents when students reveal they are pregnant has drawn criticism from health experts who say it violates a young woman's right to privacy and jeopardizes health care.
The hearing was entering its 10th hour Thursday night when Arlington County psychiatrist Martin H. Stein learned that his 40-year career as a practicing physician was effectively over.
