MedStar Health Blog

Gone are the days when you’d stand at a window and gaze at 15 babies lined up in bassinets in a hospital nursery. Nurseries for healthy babies are disappearing from hospitals across the country, inclu...

A little leg pain or soreness with exercise usually is normal. But severe pain, especially pain that appears when you’re only walking a short distance, may be a sign of a condition called peripheral a...

We’re no strangers to hot summer days in the District of Columbia. But when the thermometer inches toward and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, we could all use a reminder about the dangers of heat illnes...

For many years, the gold standard for surgical treatment of certain painful neck conditions has been a procedure called anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. This surgery can effectively relieve p...

Excruciating neck pain brought Joe and Dan, from Chattanooga, Tenn., to MedStar Georgetown in search of neck and spine pain relief after years of failed treatments.

Heart disease and stroke are the leading cause and fifth-leading cause of death of adults in the United States, respectively. Studies show that statins – cholesterol-lowering drugs – can reduce the ri...