MedStar Health Blog

“A career in medicine was always in the back of my mind,” Tani Jausurawong Wiest, DO, says of her childhood in Northern Virginia’s suburbs. It wasn’t until her undergraduate years at Virginia Tech th...

It can certainly be frightening to hear the diagnosis: that innocent-looking spot on your face is a skin cancer. And it’s going to require surgery. But Mohs micrographic surgery can provide peace of ...

Many times, it’s hard to pinpoint the cause of preterm birth, or birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy. And once you’ve delivered a preterm baby, you’re at an increased risk of having another preterm bir...

Most stay-at-home orders have lifted and many people are trying to resume normal life as much as possible. We know that wearing a face mask and socially distancing ourselves from others can help to ...

Of the prevalent diseases affecting patients today, we know that cancer is the deadliest. But thyroid cancer is a type of cancer that can be treated quite successfully—and it has a very high survival...

Colorectal cancer has traditionally been considered an older person’s disease. But according to the American Cancer Society, in 2020, 12% of colorectal cancer cases will be diagnosed in people u...