MedStar Health Blog

Instrumental music teacher Marilyn Beeson had just finished teaching her lively class of fourth and fifth graders who were preparing for their spring concert.  She was taking a drink when she felt a t...

Overseas medical missions afford physicians a unique opportunity, to learn about the challenges of delivering much-needed health care in an underserved area of a country. Sometimes it’s the un...

Hundreds of people with chronic artery blockages could benefit from a new technique to clear those old blockages. Take Dick Talley, for instance. He likes to sail, race go-karts, and work out. Since a...

In the seven years since the D.C. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program began, Heather DeVore, MD, medical director of the program and an Emergency Medicine physician at MedStar Washington Hos...

ASE's 2015 Physician Lifetime Achievement Award: Fascination with Heat Echo Leads to a Four-Decade CareerFor nearly four decades, Steven Goldstein, MD, MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute’s directo...

An inaccurate diagnosis at another hospital almost cost Steven Jones his life. Fortunately, his wife, medical director of Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, knew ...