News & Politics Looking for a Cure What’s wrong with our healthcare system, why hospitals can be dangerous, what good ones are doing about it, and the blessings—and problems—of new technology. Health | Jun 1, 2007
News & Politics Health: Your Inner Clock Do the body’s day and night rhythms hold an answer to cancer? Researchers who think so don’t like a lot of light at night. Health | Jan 1, 2007
News & Politics Cancer and the Rhythms of Your Body Do the body’s day and night rhythms hold an answer to cancer? Researchers who think so don’t like a lot of light at night. Health | Jan 1, 2007
News & Politics Why Is Lead Still Poisoning Our Children? Lead is gone from gasoline and paint—with surprisingly beneficial results. But lead still poses dangers to kids, particularly in older neighborhoods. In DC, hundreds of children are being damaged every year—and the results will be more school dropouts and Health | Aug 1, 2006
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: Doctor Recommended Hospitals Where to Go? Here Are the Hospitals That Area Doctors Consider the Best. Health | Nov 1, 2005
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: Georgetown Hospital Over and above the problem of declining reimbursement, Georgetown made some bad economic decisions. In fiscal 1996, the hospital had a profit of $13.5 million. By 1998, after an ill-fated attempt to bring in more patients by giving financial incentives to Health | Nov 1, 2005
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: Hospitals’ New Technology For area hospitals new technology can be a virtual lifesaver. Health | Nov 1, 2005
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: Inova Fairfax Hospital No area hospital has become more highly regarded in recent years than Inova Fairfax. Health | Nov 1, 2005
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: Hospitals Check Their Own Vital Signs Spurred by a 1999 Institute of Medicine report that estimated up to 98,000 deaths a year due to medical error, hospitals have been putting a new emphasis on safety. Health | Nov 1, 2005
News & Politics Hospitals 2005: George Washington University Hospital In 1997, a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, a for-profit healthcare corporation, bought an 80-percent interest in George Washington University Hospital. In 2002, the GW hospital left its old quarters--now razed--for a new building across the stree Health | Nov 1, 2005
