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While skin cancers can develop all around the body, the head and neck regions are extremely common locations for skin cancer to appear, as they regularly are exposed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation fro...

A bunion is a bony lump that develops on the base of the big toe with the big toe pushing against the second toe. While Bunions affect mostly women—more than one-third of women have them, it is...

Investigators from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the Division of Intramural Research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health have recently publis...

Recently published collaborative research investigated patients’ primary care utilization and the association with early-stage cancer diagnosis and survival outcomes for Medicaid enrollees. “Associati...

Join us at MedStar Health Research Institute in recognizing the work of our nurses during National Nurses Week, from May 6 to 12, 2019. We want to celebrate and thank nurses throughout our system for ...

This presentation explores how to consistently and comprehensively capture the patient’s voice by using multiple data sources, including unstructured FDA archival data and social media. FDA’s regulato...