MedStar Health Blog

If you or a loved one suffers from diabetes, you may be aware of one of the more troubling aspects of diabetes: limb loss. It's true that diabetes can have dramatic effects on the body's vascular syst...

Growing up in a family of medical doctors, Susmeeta Sharma, MD, knew from an early age that she would one day become a physician too. Her dad was an anesthesiologist and her mother, an OB/GYN."I’m not...

Erectile Dysfunction and Vascular HealthAt its core, erectile dysfunction is the disruption of a complex process that involves multiple systems in your body working together to increase blood flow. Th...

A former MedStar Washington Hospital Center nurse saved the day for an elderly man who fell ill in the audience at the Folger Theatre performance in DC. From an upper-level theater seat, Michelle Michaels, NP, who worked on our heart failure unit until about a year ago, saw the man in distress and called 911.

Calming Unsettled WatersCancer survivors can find themselves in a ghostly (and ghastly) space that is not quite grounded in the reality of yesterday or the hard presence of today. Even for long-term s...

Expanded access is the process by which investigational treatment options are made available to patients with serious and/or life-threatening diseases or conditions who lack therapeutic alternatives. ...