MedStar Health Blog

Good physicians learn a great about their patients’ condition through observation, and skin is often the most revealing attribute of all. “Dermatology is sometimes called an ‘old-sc...

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...

The end of 2018 marked a milestone for the MedStar Health Biobank and Clinical Library, with more than 100 participants enrolling in the joint Indivumed- MedStar project. Over 300 samples were collect...

Research from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied patient characteristics and predictors that may impact patient outcomes of changing the blood thinn...

When the first minimally invasive surgery—also called laparoscopic surgery—was performed in the early 1900s, a surgeon would use a hollow wooden tube with a candle to look in a patient&r...

A vasectomy is one way men can prevent their partners from becoming pregnant—without affecting sexual function or the ability to orgasm. A vasectomy is a noninvasive surgery that prohibits sper...