Health

Supermarket chain Giant Food will be participating in the Produce Rx pilot program in partnership with local nonprofit D.C. Greens to provide customers better access to healthy food.

Eligible patients in D.C. can now have access to free medications through the Dispensary of Hope program offered by the Providence Health System, it was announced on April 12. 

Barbara Bazron will take over as the new director of the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) which has been at the forefront of tackling the District's high rate of opioid overdoses. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the appointment in an email to her Cabinet members on April 9.

Johnson & Johnson's startup arm JLABS is planning to open a 32,000-square foot facility which will be located at the new Children's National Research and Innovation Campus in Washington, D.C, it was announced on April 9.

Three patients have tested positive on Saturday for the contagious norovirus at a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C., according to D.C. health officials.

More than 70 restaurants and bars across the D.C. Metro area will be supporting Dining Out for Life on April 4 by donating a portion of their sales to support food and nutrition services of Food & Friends.

D.C. officials are planning to distribute 76,000 anti-overdose kits by the end of September to combat the ongoing opioid crisis in the city, according to a report in the Washington Post on April 1.

The D.C. Council has enacted on April 1 a legislation called the Breast Density Screening and Notification Act of 2018 which requires all women to be informed by health care facilities if they have dense breast tissue, after undergoing a mammogram.