The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is funding a new program designed to increase diversity in health tech through partnerships with multiple universities, including several in Greater!-->…
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has requested that the council consider an internal resolution during next week’s legislative session that would require all councilmembers and their staff to be!-->…
George Washington University’s physicians, practitioners, and medical faculty will be providing staffing at the new hospital at St. Elizabeths East and two new urgent care facilities opening in wards!-->…
There is no guarantee, but the weather’s supposed to be fine when the Women’s March kicks off Saturday morning at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington. And I certainly don’t know how many!-->…
The lions and tigers at the Smithsonian National Zoo that contracted COVID-19 last month are improving, but the great cats are now being treated for secondary bacterial pneumonia, the zoo said.
D.C. developers have been waiting for years for another chance to win a piece of the city’s main affordable housing loan fund — and now, the opportunity is larger than ever before.
This pandemic has been especially hard for Black folks in Washington. We have lost our jobs, gotten sicker and died at higher rates than other residents.
In her two years living on the sidewalk along the L Street underpass in NoMa, Gwen Morgan had one strict rule. “You had to take off your shoes in my tent,” she says. “That was my safe haven, so I!-->…
While those receiving food stamp benefits nationwide will see a boost compared to pre-pandemic levels starting in October, recipients in the D.C. region will actually see their monthly payments drop.!-->…
Covenant House, a nonprofit group with locations across the country, will open a new, low-barrier shelter for LGBTQ young people Friday afternoon in the Deanwood neighborhood of Northeast Washington.!-->…
Coolidge football coach Kevin Nesbitt was raised to be hesitant about Western medicine. He received necessary shots and vaccines as a child, but when he has dealt with ailments over time, he has!-->…
It only occupies a small open area near Allen Chapel AME Church in Southeast D.C., but a newly expanded urban garden is having a big impact on the community it serves.
With the deadline looming for D.C. government workers to get at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, around 75% of them are reporting that they are fully vaccinated.
Advocates are accusing D.C. education officials of discriminating against incarcerated students with disabilities by failing to provide adequate instruction during the pandemic, according to a!-->…
A partnership has been finalized that will bring doctors and other health care workers from The George Washington University to the new hospital at St. Elizabeths East in Southeast D.C.
George Washington University medical staff will provide care for adults at the new $375 million hospital at St. Elizabeths and two new urgent-care facilities in Southeast, hospital and D.C. leaders!-->…