MedStar Health Blog

Collaborative, patient-partnered research at MHRI aims to help patients and providers understand the impacts of diagnostic errors to limit adverse outcomes.   Recent research finds that diagnost...

More than 500,000 cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED), such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, are implanted in U.S. patients each year to manage a range of heart co...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men, with approximately one in eight men receiving a diagnosis at some point in their lives. Fortunately, early diagnosis and a broad range of eff...

Of all the to-dos on your back-to-school list, brushing up on protecting yourself from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) should be near the top. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Dis...

It can be tough pulling together daily school lunches for picky eaters. As a mother of four and a registered dietitian, I know this struggle well. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...

As a pediatrician, I have a lot of interesting conversations with my young patients and their parents. One of the most common topics is rarely a medical problem at all—it’s sleep. Young patients te...