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MedStar Health investigators study how applying algorithms to electronic health records can find red flags in a pregnant patient’s medical information that may put them at risk for maternal health com...

This article was written by Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, David Stein, MD, and James McDermott, medical student at UCLA.   A new study by MedStar Health Research Institute found that patients are...

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world among developing countries. For decades, medical providers have understood that social and environmental inequities imp...

Investigators at MedStar Health Research Institute led a study that revealed more support for telehealth among providers than cancer survivors.   When the COVID-19 pandemic began, cancer care pro...

Since well before the horrific Tuskegee Experiment, Black patients have had a complicated relationship with health care systems, steeped in generational mistrust and compounded by personal experience....

By and large, hospitals are extremely safe places—thanks in large part to nurses, who are responsible for delivering safe, exceptional patient care. Nurses are on the frontlines to prevent safet...