MedStar Health Blog

The MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) Office of Research Integrity (ORI) would like to provide some details on recent changes to the Common Rule and how it may affect you. The U.S. Department o...

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first clinical use of metformin for diabetes treatment, Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, produced a special edit...

Researchers at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (MUMH) have published the results of a laboratory investigation that used a novel diagnostic tool for diagnosing subtle injury to the ankle in cases of a...

Lee Ann Richter, MD, is one of the few urologists in the country with obstetrics and gynecology-based training in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. That combination of specializ...

As more people survive and live longer with heart disease, adult children are increasingly becoming involved in their parent’s health care. They support their parents in making diet and lifestyle chan...

 The trend in surgery today is to use the least-invasive procedures possible. The reasoning is simple: It’s usually better for patients to return home and get back to their normal liv...