MedStar Health Blog

Nearly 200,000 people get bariatric surgery each year in the United States, and about 1,000 of them are teenagers. The obesity rate among adolescents age 12 to 19 more than doubled between 1988 ...

In July 2016, I attended a bariatric surgery information session with my mom. I went to support her, but I guess I looked like I needed help, too. Someone handed me a weight-loss surgery form to...

An old saying goes, "The eyes are the window to the soul." Though my work as an oculoplastic surgeon (a doctor who specializes in surgery on structures around the eyes) doesn't qualify me to make that...

Madden now makes better nutritional choices thanks to the advice she received from her endocrinologist Dr. Kulkarni. Vanessa Madden suffered from type 2 diabetes for 13 years. She lived with extreme ...

It can be tough to tell the difference between a cold, a bacterial sinus infection and allergies. In fact, that’s probably one of the questions people ask doctors most frequently in this country. Ther...

As more people survive and live longer with heart disease, adult children are increasingly becoming involved in their parent’s health care. They support their parents in making diet and lifestyle chan...