MedStar Health Blog

True or false: Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, causes more deaths than breast cancer or prostate cancer. The answer: True! A largely under-recognized public health issue, CKD is the ninth leading caus...

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women; only lung cancer is deadlier. This serious disease will affect over 275,000 American women this year alone. Of those, 42,000 will ...

While COVID-19 and the flu have similar symptoms, there is one distinct difference—we have an effective vaccine to lower your risk of getting the flu. Now, more than ever, it’s critical t...

Influenza (or what we commonly call flu) is one of several viruses which can infect the respiratory tract and cause symptoms of runny nose, cough, and nasal congestion (and occasionally more severe il...

Seven years ago, Lynel McFadden was diagnosed with stage one, triple negative breast cancer, and she was understandably scared.  She had been referred to another healthcare organization and that ...

MedStar Washington Hospital Center made history this summer when it became the first hospital in the United States to perform minimally invasive spine surgery using Brainlab’s Cirq® robotic ...