MedStar Health Blog

Relaxing is an important part of life—even for the heart. When the heart has trouble relaxing between beats, the left chamber (left ventricle) can’t completely refill with blood. This res...

Artery buildups serve as silent danger signs of a heart attack, and one of the buildups we look for the most is calcium. A coronary calcium score is a type of heart scan that calculates a patient&rsq...

Join more than 3,000 interventional and endovascular specialists at Cardiovascular Research Technologies Conference (CRT) 2018 for a comprehensive four-day interventional cardiology conference featuri...

The holidays offer us time with friends and family, and sometimes even vacations from work. But one thing we have noticed over the years is that the holidays and winter months also correspond with in...

During his training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Anirudh Rao, MD, found the most meaningful cases to be those involving end-of-life issues, including those with di...

The pituitary gland is a tiny organ, only about the size of a pea, located at the base of your brain. I think of the pituitary gland like the conductor of a mighty orchestra. As part of the endocrine ...