MedStar Health Blog

Our associates were given a rare glimpse into a museum 100 years in the making on a special afternoon in January, celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was an uplifting program featuring a performance by Mosaic Harmony and a presentation by Mary Elliott, a museum specialist with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Before becoming a nurse navigator, I was a patient myself forging my own personal journey with breast cancer. One of the individuals who helped me was a woman who shared some of her own personal exper...

If you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, surgery might be the best treatment for you, especially in younger men less than 65 years old who have higher risk disease and overall good health. But...

Love and Luck My life has been overflowing with Love and Luck, and never more so than since my surprise diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer on March 12, 2001, at age 45 years, five months and 1...

With news of pneumonia thrust into the spotlight, we spoke with Dr. Matthew Schreiber, a pulmonary disease and critical care specialist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, about what we need to kno...

Hearing a cancer diagnosis can bring on a flood of conflicting emotions. Shock, numbness, anger and confusion about your next steps. There are more than 14 million new diagnoses each year, and many pa...