MedStar Health Blog

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...

Artificial intelligence in healthcare is no longer science fiction. Today, it is science fact—with the power to significantly improve efficiency.  However, concerns have been raised about ...

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...