MedStar Health Blog

If you’re ready to quit smoking, there are proven ways to give up the habit—and electronic cigarettes are not one of them.  In fact, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently issued a l...

By Petros Okubagzi, MD and Mary Anne Hinkson   Improving access to clinical trials starts with streamlining the informed consent process and making it instantly available — anywhere, anytim...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the United States.  The American Cancer Society estimates that there are 268,490 men diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022. Although...

Recent advances in diagnostic technology are providing answers for patients with the mysterious heart condition “chest pain syndrome X”—a frustratingly common condition that we used...

By Michelle Fischmann Magee, MD and Carine Nassar, RD, CDCES   Preliminary research indicates that patients with type 2 diabetes-built confidence and lowered hemoglobin A1C levels while participa...

If you’ve caught a newscast recently, you’re probably aware that there is a small outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S.—around 12,000 cases confirmed here and approximately 32,000 globa...