MedStar Health Blog

When you get a cold or the flu, you want to get better as soon as possible. Many people, at the first sign of illness, call their primary care physician looking for an antibiotic. But antibiotics don’...

  Dr. Kankam chats with a patient during a consultation. It’s normal - even expected - to experience days where you feel down, unmotivated, and just not exactly like yourself. When th...

  Nearly every pregnant woman hopes that the obstetrician she saw during her pregnancy will be the one to deliver her baby when the big day comes. And in some cases, that’s exactly wh...

Women who have a mastectomy often are concerned with how their breast will look and feel after reconstructive surgery. About 80 percent of women choose to get a breast implant after having brea...

Patients with Advanced Liver Cancer Among Those Benefitting Dr. Moin is one of the few specialists in the region performing Y-90 radioembolization. Advances in medicine have created a wide range...

Millions of people get a flu vaccine in the fall as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Medical Association and other professional medical groups. But ma...