Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore announced Tuesday they completed last week what they are calling the “most extensive” face transplant ever conducted.

If you put enough people outside for a long enough time during the cold months, someone will eventually get sick. For Occupy DC protesters and the District’s health officials, this reality underlies the ongoing challenge of maintaining healthy encampments as the weather turns.

In case you weren’t sure, it is indeed very illegal to operate an unlicensed operation in which you inject silicone into the buttocks of women inside D.C. hotel rooms in exchange for cash.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center lowered its flags today. In its 102 years at its location along Georgia Avenue, the campus has served countless numbers of veterans.

approximately 1,700 nurses at Washington Hospital Center, ratified a new contract, putting to bed one of the region’s most heated labor disputes.

WJLA is reporting this morning that a tentative agreement has been reached between Washington Hospital Center and a union representing its nurses, a deal which could bring an end to one of the region’s longest-running labor disputes.

Last week, we reported that unionized nurses at Washington Hospital Center had announced that they would strike for 24 hours on November 25. But Ben Fischer with the Washington Business Journal reports this afternoon that the strike has now been called off. According to an email sent to employees last night, hospital administration and National Nurses United — the union representing the nurses — have agreed to new wage rules which will go into effect…