Online degree programs at D.C.-area schools are among the highest ranked in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2026 Best Online Programs. Many students earn…
Read more Where the DC region’s universities rank in online degree offerings – WTOP NewsJohns Hopkins University will be eliminating tuition for undergraduate students from families that make up to $200,000 a year, starting next year, the university announced Thursday. Johns Hopkins…
Read more Johns Hopkins University eliminating tuition for most students – WTOP NewsThe D.C. region is aging, a shift that experts say is the result of a declining birth rate, expensive housing and flexibility that comes with hybrid or remote…
Read more On the Move: As DC region gets older, talent supply isn’t growing – WTOP NewsFor years now, health experts have been warning that COVID-era politics and the spread of anti-vaxxer lies have brought us to the brink of public-health catastrophe—that a Great…
Read more America Is Having a Senior Moment on VaccinesIn the 1970s, they tried lithium. Then it was zinc and THC. Anti-anxiety drugs had their turn. So did Prozac and SSRIs and atypical antidepressants. Nothing worked. Patients…
Read more We Have No Drugs to Treat the Deadliest Eating DisorderIn an ideal version of this coming winter, the United States would fully revamp its approach to respiratory disease. Pre-pandemic, fall was just a time for flu shots,…
Read more Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This HardSince the pandemic’s earliest days, epidemiologists have been waiting for the coronavirus to finally snap out of its pan-season spree. No more spring waves like the first to…
Read more One More COVID Summer?This spring, amid a spate of mass shootings and rising concern about gun crime, two universities made plans to fortify their campus-police forces. George Washington University’s police department…
Read more Colleges Acted to Rein In Their Police. Then They Backtracked.In one very specific and mostly benign way, it’s starting to feel a lot like the spring of 2020: Disinfection is back. “Bleach is my friend right now,”…
Read more Norovirus Is Almost Impossible to StopIn the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most…
Read more The Future of Long COVIDHeterodox Academy is starting a new program that will provide support for a network of groups on college campuses to further the organization’s mission of promoting “open inquiry,…
Read more How Heterodox Academy Hopes to Change the Campus ConversationAfter months and months of SARS-CoV-2 subvariant soup, one ingredient has emerged in the United States with a flavor pungent enough to overwhelm the rest: XBB.1.5, an Omicron…
Read more How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a niche subset of experimental vaccines has offered the world a tantalizing promise: a sustained slowdown in the spread of…
Read more Will Nasal COVID Vaccines Save Us?For refrigerators across America, the passing of Thanksgiving promises a major purge. The good stuff is the first to go: the mashed potatoes, the buttery remains of stuffing,…
Read more Expiration Dates Are MeaninglessAfter nearly three years of constantly thinking about COVID, it’s alarming how easily I can stop. The truth is, as a healthy, vaxxed-to-the-brim young person who has already…
Read more What Does It Mean to Care About COVID Anymore?In COVID terms, the middle of last autumn looked a lot like this one. After a rough summer, SARS-CoV-2 infections were down; hospitalizations and deaths were in a…
Read more Will We Get Omicron’d Again?This article was originally published in Undark Magazine. Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up…
Read more Computers May Have Cracked the Code to Diagnosing SepsisPress Release – updated: Nov 29, 2018 EMERYVILLE, Calif., November 29, 2018 (Newswire.com) – Not everyone can rely on scholarships to take them through school. Instead, most will…
Read more AFBC: Johns Hopkins University May Have Just Done Away With Student Loans for Good
