MedStar Health Blog

If you’ve caught a newscast recently, you’re probably aware that there is a small outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S.—around 12,000 cases confirmed here and approximately 32,000 globa...

This blog was written by Asli McCullers, Health Equity Research Associate at MedStar Health. Findings by MedStar Health Research Institute suggest the stress of the pandemic and daily experiences of r...

Thanks to a global vaccination effort, polio was eradicated in the U.S. since 1979 and in most of the world since the 2010s. But in July 2022, a patient in Rockland County, NY, was diagnosed with pol...

New research by MedStar Health Research Institute has identified opportunities to relieve the financial burden of uncomplicated antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections.   Urinary tract infe...

Each year, more than 500,000 people visit an emergency room because of a kidney stone. People with kidney stones can often experience flank or back pain. The pain from kidney stones ca...

The ultraviolet (UV) index is highest in spring and summer, so the risk of sun-related damage is highest this time of year. And aside from the short- and long-term dangers of sun exposure, the heat t...