MedStar Health Blog

Sports are so much more than games. Athletes of all ages and levels learn lifelong skills while getting a healthy dose of exercise and endorphins. As a sports cardiologist and a former collegiate soc...

The carotid arteries run along both sides of the neck, supplying the brain with oxygenated blood to help it manage all the body’s functions. But when a patient develops carotid artery stenosis (CAS),...

When a patient comes to us with symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath, they’re usually worried that they’re having a heart attack. While ruling out a heart attack based on imagin...

New research from MedStar Health demonstrates the effectiveness for a chronic migraine medication.    MedStar Health scientists participated in a recently published study of a new drug, ato...

In 2023, stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, accounted for about 1.4% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the U.S., with an estimated 26,500 new cases diagnosed. Globally, it represents the 5t...

Within the last ten years, advances in cancer treatments have begun to offer more hope than ever before. One such treatment is immunotherapy, which uses the body’s own immune system to fight dis...