MedStar Health Blog

Traveling can be a nice way to unwind and explore new places. It also can present challenges–such as, maintaining your healthy diet or making sure to bring with you everything you need. This can be es...

Eating out can be a daunting task if you have type 2 diabetes. Portions at restaurants typically are way too big for one person and often contain much more salt, sugar, and calories than anyone should...

One of the major goals of our Limb Salvage and Wound Care program is to avoid amputation when we can—and our efforts and those of similar programs around the country are paying off. The Centers for Di...

Years ago, before we had advanced and routine imaging, a kidney mass was only discovered when it had become very large, caused pain or caused blood in the urine. Oftentimes, patients’ kidn...

In April 2018, beloved Night Court actor Harry Anderson died at 65 from a cardioembolic stroke, which involves blockage of a brain blood vessel and is among the most common types of stroke. However, o...

What if I were to say to you, “Quick! Tell me some important diseases.”? What would you come up with? Cancer? Heart disease? Diabetes? These are all good answers, but what if I told you that you were ...