MedStar Health Blog

Clinical trials are an essential way we create new knowledge about how to help our patients heal. Yet, despite our efforts to expedite this work, clinical trials remain inefficient, expensive, slow, ...

Research demonstrates that remote blood pressure monitoring and education programs for expectant and new mothers close care gaps with real-time feedback and intervention.   Developing or ...

The first days and weeks at home following labor and delivery can be a magical and exhausting experience for new mothers. For some, it can be a dangerous time, too. Hypertensive disorders of pregnanc...

MedStar Health Research Institute is now enrolling patients in the prospective, multi-center Pathfinder 2 trial of an early detection test for multiple types of cancer. The sooner cancer is found, th...

This article was written by Kathryn Walker, PharmD and Hunter Groninger, MD.   In collaboration with investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, this NIH-funded research will examine a meth...

A new technology available at MedStar Washington Hospital Center called pulsed field ablation (PFA) offers a treatment option for atrial fibrillation (AFib) that reduces the risk of complications. ...