MedStar Health Blog

Starting at age 40—or sooner, based on your personal and family health history—mammography should become a central tool in your annual health checkups. Your health care team will use your mammogram re...

Ovarian cancer rates have declined in recent decades, but in the United States this year over 21,000 women are expected to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer and nearly 14,000 women will die from it. ...

As a gynecologic surgeon, one of the best parts of my job is getting this joyful email from patients who’d had reproductive concerns: “We’re pregnant!” So, when Shayna Frost, a Diabetes Educator ...

Women today face many contradictions about how to handle their personal health, especially when it comes to common—but not normal—pelvic floor disorders such as pelvic organ prolapse and urinary ...

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