MedStar Health Blog

MedStar Health Research Institute is pleased to announce Nawar Shara,  PhD, Director for the Center of Biostatistics, Informatics and Data Science (CBIDS), Associate Professor of Medicine, Geo...

Women die of pregnancy-related causes at higher rates in D.C. (36 deaths per 100,000 live births) than any other state in the nation, according to 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data....

If you've ever flown on a plane, you've heard a flight attendant instruct everyone to put their oxygen masks on first before helping others, in the event of an emergency. This safety spiel isn't to e...

Collaborative research from MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School evaluated trends i...

In her first federal award (AHRQ R21), Jessica E. Galarraga, MD, MPH will study, “An EHR-Based Screening Tool to Support Safe Discharges of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department&rd...

Over the past year, our research team Dr. Thomas Fishbein, Dr. Khalid Khan and Dr. Alexander Kroemer from the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute has been working to develop a therapeutic to treat...