MedStar Health Blog

Each year, an estimated 200,000 people in the U.S. get a pacemaker—consisting of a metal, disc-shaped battery surgically placed under the skin of the chest and connected to the inside chambers of the...

Novel research from MedStar Health helps pave the road for the future of echocardiography, through the development and implementation of machine learning tools that improve the accuracy of this cardi...

MedStar Washington Hospital Center is participating in a national study to learn whether a blood clotting medicine can help stop life-threatening bleeding in patients who have suffered a traumatic in...

Every year, 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer. In addition, 4,000 women will die from it every year, according to the American Cancer Society. The good news is that routine screenings a...

MHRI research has demonstrated that an algorithm can quickly measure fractional flow reserve values from an angiogram, efficiently helping identify lesions.   Patients who come to the cardiac ca...

For the thousands of women in the U.S. who will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer this year, new guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) offer a glimpse at the most advanc...