MedStar Health Blog

This article was written by Jessica N. Rivera Rivera, PHD, MPH, and Claire Starling, MPH. In our study, we found that new parents find chatbot resources for infant and maternal care useful when carin...

Sports are so much more than games. Athletes of all ages and levels learn lifelong skills while getting a healthy dose of exercise and endorphins. As a sports cardiologist and a former collegiate soc...

The carotid arteries run along both sides of the neck, supplying the brain with oxygenated blood to help it manage all the body’s functions. But when a patient develops carotid artery stenosis (CAS),...

When a patient comes to us with symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath, they’re usually worried that they’re having a heart attack. While ruling out a heart attack based on imagin...

New research from MedStar Health demonstrates the effectiveness for a chronic migraine medication.    MedStar Health scientists participated in a recently published study of a new drug, ato...

In 2023, stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, accounted for about 1.4% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the U.S., with an estimated 26,500 new cases diagnosed. Globally, it represents the 5t...