MedStar Health Blog

As temperatures plummet in the Washington, D.C., region, people heading outdoors for work or recreational purposes, should be aware that frostbite can occur at any time. Last year, we treated a dozen ...

The Farming Life of Melissa Fries, MD  It’s 5:30 a.m. on a weekday morning, and Melissa Fries, MD, sits in a metal shed on her rural western Montgomery County farm, hand-milking Leaf, an Oberhasli mil...

Pelvic Floor Disorder: A Common ProblemIt’s a fact that one in three women over the age of 45 suffers from a pelvic floor disorder (PFD). The most common pelvic floor disorders are urinary incontinenc...

Three confirmed cases of the Zika virus have now been reported in D.C., all from people who have traveled outside of the United States, according to the D.C. Department of Health. One of the three cas...

MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center is one of only two hospitals in the nation selected to partner with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) on the Find Yo...

It takes a village – in this case a village of nearly 700 associates and physicians who spent the weekend at MedStar Washington Hospital Center during the recent Blizzard of 2016 to make sure our patients received the care they needed. Here is a look at the blizzard by the numbers and through the amazing stories of associate teamwork – and the persistence of one little baby.