MedStar Health News

Cardiology Terms to Know By: Athanasios Thomaides, MD, FACC Heart attack: The medical term for a heart attack is myocardial infarction (MI).  MIs are caused by blocked arteries supplying the mus...

Auxiliary Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Caring for our Community  MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital would not be where it is today without the continued support of the hospital&rsquo...

When Emergency Department (ED) nurse Cathy Ruffin heard of the catastrophic flooding ravaging Louisiana, she sprang into action.  Because of her experience at MedStar Southern Maryland, her imm...

MedStar Health will host a group of medical students from Georgetown University School of Medicine for the first six months of their third year of medical school at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center as part of a new shared curriculum that satisfies the students’ clinical rotations requirements in an innovative, patient-centered way.

VHQC Honors Hospitals for Reducing Infections MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital is among only seven hospitals in Maryland and Virginia to receive VHQC’s 2015 Quality Innovation Award. The a...

MedStar National Rehabilitation Network will host the 13th annual Super H 5K Run, Walk & Wheel on Sunday, September 18 for runners, walkers and adaptive athletes.