MedStar Health Blog

For many women, the fear of breast cancer is very real, due to certain risk factors - for example, a family history of breast cancers, being a member of a high-risk group or even aging. The presence o...

Our pharmacists play a vital role in ensuring safe and effective medication use, counseling patients and providing drug information to health providers. Here are 5 top things our pharmacists want you to know about using medication wisely.

By Leslie Whitlinger Lakita Thomas, of Washington, D.C., is much more accustomed to providing care than receiving it. After all, she has four kids and two grandkids. But after a month of heavy bleedin...

Sometimes the deadliest diseases can be the hardest to detect.Such is the case with hypertension, or high blood pressure. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one-t...

By Heidi Rosvold-Brenholtz When Nicholas “Nick” Cortina was born in 1993, he weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces, and fit in the palm of his father’s hand. Three-and-one-half months premature, he spent the...

By the time John Hume, now 48, reached MedStar Georgetown University Hospital by ambulance, “I was a cascading catastrophe,” he recalls. Diagnosed and treated by his family doctor for a mild case ...