MedStar Health Blog

When I was six years old, I was playing in my family’s dry-cleaning business when a drunk driver crashed through the front window. I was pinned beneath the hot metal of the car and exposed to steam f...

More than half of the 500,000 individuals who die each year from a heart attack are women. Unfortunately, heart conditions are often stereotyped as a primarily male health concern, and symptoms of he...

In an exciting and important step, MedStar Washington Hospital Center is pleased to offer robotic-assisted heart surgery to our patients. Sophisticated robotic equipment allows for safer and more eff...

How does the heart work? Your heart is a lot like your house, complete with a framework, plumbing, and an electrical system. It has one mission: to keep blood moving. The framework is provided by th...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart condition in the world, affecting approximately 1 in 500 people. It causes parts of the heart to thicken, which can make it more d...

More thyroid cancers are diagnosed every year—in the U.S., the occurrence of thyroid cancer has tripled in the last 30 years. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 3...