MedStar Health Blog

Through the centuries, how individuals respond and react to trauma has been well documented in historical records as well as in literature ranging from Homer’s 8th-century Iliad to the writings o...

Summer is upon us, and it’s time to get ready for the Race to Beat Cancer, our popular race event supporting life-saving cancer research! Despite the challenges of a global pandemic, last year’s ...

It’s been about 15 months since the term “COVID-19” became part of our vocabularies and began wreaking havoc on “normal life” as we all once knew it. In more ways than can be counted, the pandemi...

Are you familiar with Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA), a serious genetic blood disorder that is caused when the sickle trait is passed from both parents to a child?  Some individuals inherit a sick...

Si perteneces a la comunidad negra o latina, es posible que tengas algunas preocupaciones sobre la eficacia de la vacuna contra la COVID-19. Desde la desigualdad histórica en la investigación méd...

As the command center for every system in the body, a healthy brain requires a lot of blood to stay functional; in fact, every minute, it makes use of ¼ of the blood pumped by the heart. A dimini...