MedStar Health Blog

Whether from high heels, heritage or happenstance, painful bunions can cramp your style. But practical tactics and specialty medical care can get you back on your feet.

Simultaneous Bilateral Cataract Surgery lets patients have cataract surgery on both eyes, on the same day, The procedure sparks debate among physicians.

For some people who have lung cancer, immunotherapy can be an effective tool because it relies on the body's immune system to eliminate cancer cells. Targeted therapies, on the other hand, do not dire...

Tune in to the full podcast interview with Dr. Thakkar. If knee or hip pain is starting to limit your life, it’s time to think about repairing or replacing those aching joints, rather than retiring ...

Marathon runner Michael Spinelli was a healthy, busy junior at Catholic University. Then a sudden onset of pain revealed an aortic dissection.

Immunotherapy is a promising treatment for lung cancer. The concept isn’t new. Since the 1970s, doctors have turned to medicine as a tool to stimulate the immune system’s defensive response to cancer....