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Jeanny Aragon-Ching, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, was interviewed by Everyday Health for a story on whether certain genes may impact a person's chances of getting bladder cancer and whether the cancer may take on an aggressive form.

Mohamed Mohamed, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and global health, was quoted in an article in The Washington Post about the infant he treated, born at L'Enfant Metro Station. 

Patience White, M.D., professor of medicine, was quoted in an article in Arthritis Today about research suggesting Medicaid patients often have more spine surgery complications than privately insured patients.

Jesse Pines, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, was interviewed for an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about emergency room waiting times. Pines commented that certain time-sensitive conditions are overlooked when the emergency room is crowded.

Zachary Litvack, M.D., assistant professor of neurological surgery, was interviewed by NBC4 about a minimally invasive procedure he performs called single-port intracranial endoscopy.

Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., professor of pediatrics, was quoted in The New York Times on the undertraining of physicians in the United States to meet healthcare industry demands and the industry's dependence on foreign doctors to fill the gap. 

When it comes to quantitative issues in health care, there is no shortage of statistics, polls, rates, or dates. Qualitative issues, however, are another story. While quality of care is of upmost importance, its evaluation and promotion are not so simple.

It should have been a routine sonogram. Health officials in rural Thailand, who had been tracking the presence of a parasitic worm in the local population, were checking a 50-year-old woman’s gall bladder for inflammation — a clear indication of the presence of the parasite — nothing more.

There is something special about the third floor of 2175 K Street. It is the feeling that for those here, an office is more than a workplace, a colleague is more than a co-worker, and a job is more than its title. “It” may not be quite tangible, but one thing is clear.

In his computer science laboratory on The George Washington University campus, James Hahn, Ph.D., holds what he calls a magic wand — a slender, black piece of plastic about eight inches long.