MedStar Health Blog

Distance learning can be hard for any student, but kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD) face additional challenges that can make virtual sch...

As a computer engineering and computer science undergraduate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Shawn Tejiram, MD, seemed well on his way to a career in information technology. But volu...

Nearly a million Americans—about one in 300—have multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting the spine, brain and optic nerves. Its cause is uncertain, but we do know that—like in ot...

Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer, as more people in the United States die from the disease than any other type of cancer. And, although survival rates are much higher than they were thirt...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Have you heard about nerve-sparing surgery? Although not a new concept, it was a little-known approach until recently. And as surgeons become increasingly skillf...

When Dana Reeve—wife of disabled actor Christopher Reeve and a well-known activist for disabled persons’ rights—succumbed to lung cancer at age 44, her death raised a lot of eyebrows—and a lot of awa...