Health What’s the Deal With Ozempic and Other Weight-Loss Drugs? The semaglutide injections seem to be everywhere—including DC. MedicineJuly 14, 2023
Health People Who Hate Needles Are Sucking It Up to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine (While Still Freaking Out) "It seems like the only way out of this would be a vaccine, which isn't ideal." Coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, COVID-19, Covid-19 vaccineMarch 11, 2021
News & Politics The Remarkable Story of Vivien Thomas, the Black Man Who Helped Invent Heart Surgery Thomas never went to medical school, but he had a genius, a stunning dexterity. He might have been a great surgeon. Instead, he became a legend. Alfred Blalock, Baltimore, Features, From the ArchivesJune 19, 2020
Health She Searched Everywhere for a Kidney Donor. It Turned Out Her Adoptive Sister Was a Match. When Jen Gallagher was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, her doctors said she'd need a transplant within a decade. Health, kidney donation, kidney transplant, MedicineNovember 13, 2019
Health This San Francisco-Based Medical Startup Wants to Change the Way DC Uses Primary Care Forward opened its first DC location near City Center this week. Doctors, Forward, Medicine, primary careJuly 18, 2019
News & Politics A Woman in a DC Courtroom Got Sick. Good Thing Anthony Fauci Was in the Jury Pool. Even world-famous doctors get jury duty. Anthony Fauci, Jury Duty, Medicine, NIHMarch 22, 2019
Health Georgetown’s Dean of Medical Research On the Joys of Being Wrong "Even when you can't cure something, if you can give someone the time to watch their kids grow up, graduate, and marry, you've given that person a life." Bob Clarke, Cancer, Cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer CenterJune 13, 2018
