MedStar Health Blog

People sometimes mistakenly think that accepting palliative care means they have to stop receiving other medical treatment. However, palliative care is a specialty service that can be provided at any ...

Thank you to all associates who donated and stepped out to support Team MCRN at the 2017 American Heart Association Greater Washington Heart Walk. The team raised $1,490 to help Americans build health...

Cigarettes and other tobacco products contain one of the world’s most addictive substances: nicotine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that a little more than 15 percent ...

Burns can happen to anyone, but people with diabetes may be more susceptible than others. In fact, between 10 and 15 percent of patients admitted to our Burn Center have diabetes.High or unstable bloo...

In November 2017, martial arts expert and actor Chuck Norris filed a lawsuit in California alleging an ingredient in a contrast dye used in a specific type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poisoned...

We’ve made great progress in recent years when it comes to lung cancer. As noted in trends data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentages of people diagnosed with or dying f...