MedStar Health Blog

New guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that adults 65 years and older receive two vaccines to protect against pneumococcal disease, up from the previous recommen...

Minimally Invasive Treatment for Fibroids Jim Robinson, MD, says the most common problem that sends women to their gynecologists is abnormal uterine bleeding. And one of the most common structural r...

Preventing Colon Cancer Colon cancer is one of the very few preventable cancers. However, it typically has no symptoms in its early stages, making it critical to take advantage of available screening...

SCAD—A Silent Killer of Healthy Young People What is Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)? Artery walls have three layers. When a tear or dissection occurs blood is able to flow throu...

Minimally Invasive Treatment for A-Fib Treating Atrial Fibrillation or A-Fib by Catheter Ablation Catheter ablation is a minimally invasive procedure performed by an electrophysiologist, a cardiologi...

 Abnormal but non-cancerous, uterine fibroids affect more than 50 percent of all American women, a figure that jumps to 80 percent among African Americans.  Fortunately, most women never even kno...