Boils and carbuncles are firm, reddish swellings about 5-10 mm across that are slightly raised above the skin surface. They are formed by bacterial infections of hair follicles and surrounding skin. Boils form pustules (small blister-like swellings...

Boil or furuncle is a skin disease caused by the inflammation of hair follicles, thus resulting in the localized accumulation of pus and dead tissue. Individual boils can cluster together and form an interconnected network of boils called carbuncles. In...

THAT IS THE question. On Wednesday the District's most authoritative figure on health matters, Public Health Commissioner Harvey Sloane, warned elderly residents and people with weakened immuned systems to boil tap water before drinking or cooking with it. The city's water supply contains potentially...

ONE-POT DISHES ARE AS OLD AS COOKING ITSELF and still the easiest way to make dinner, especially in summer's heat. In this region, at this time of year, the sea provides the main ingredient. Fill a pot with clams, then add potatoes and sausages,...

After a year of position papers and policy speeches, handshakes in the summer heat and winter snow, advertising that floods mailboxes and TV screens, and too many bites of pork on a stick at too many county fairs, it's time.For the final arguments.Heading into the...

The Statue of Liberty hatches out of New York's submission for the White House's annual State Egg Display. Pennsylvania's depicts Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day. Montana's features a delicately painted landscape.And Wyoming's? It's a crude drawing of an egg on skis amid a scattering of...