MedStar Health Blog

Hard on the heels of a major national survey assessing the impact of cardio-oncology care, the American College of Cardiology has appointed Ana Barac, MD, PhD, FACC, chair of a new section devoted to ...

Congenital Heart Defects Detective The device is thinner than a flash drive, elegantly streamlined and slanted at the edges like the latest smart phones. Cardiologist Margaret Bell Fischer, MD, holds ...

Armed with techniques learned in Asia and new devices created in the U.S., two specialists at MedStar Washington Hospital Center are giving hope to a subset of chronic total occlusion (CTO) patients w...

Clinical Trial Will Study Novel Stem Cells in Cardiac Patients When stem cell research targeted to cardiovascular disease first made headlines almost two decades ago, many speculated it would create a...

Ron Waksman, MD, director of Cardiovascular Research and Advanced Education, is leading an international, multicenter study to determine if the presence of Lipid-Rich Plaques (LRP) can predict a futur...

Stroke Prevention Device Proven Option for Some A-Fib PatientsOn June 16, a team of cardiac specialists at MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute (MHVI) became the first in the metropolitan Washington...