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I am a Chaplain at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in the nation's capital. It is my third year at the Hospital Center (where I did my Clinical Pastoral Education training) an...

Joint pain from cartilage or tissue injury in the knee and shoulder can make it painful to run, play sports, walk or even stand. Although clinical exams and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pla...

As the Glaucoma Research Foundation notes, about three million Americans have glaucoma, but only about half of them know it. That’s because there may not be any symptoms to notice until the disease st...

In December 1967, a South African surgeon made history when he successfully transplanted the heart of a woman who died in a motor vehicle accident victim into a heart failure patient.Flash forward 50 ...

The bustling environment of Emergency Medicine may seem worlds away from the relatively benign atmosphere of the corner pharmacy. But even after Maryann Amirshahi, MD, PharmD, MPH, had begun her caree...

Nearly 200,000 people get bariatric surgery each year in the United States, and about 1,000 of them are teenagers. The obesity rate among adolescents age 12 to 19 more than doubled between 1988 ...