MedStar Health Blog

As a supplement to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity, lorcaserin is FDA-approved for chronic weight management in the United States. Lorcaserin is a serotonin receptor subtype 5-h...

Thanks to our high-reliability culture, MedStar receives many Good Catches every year, many of which are shared in the Good Catch Monday emails, and through the sharing of Safety Moments and in Safety...

National Doctors' Day is held each year on March 30th, as a day set aside to honor the significant contribution physicians and caregivers make to communities, and their unwavering commitment to provi...

At least once a month, a patient asks if I’ve read Dave Barry’s column about getting a colonoscopy. The humor writer discusses how fear kept him from getting the procedure until he was 60 – a decade a...

We care for about 3,500 pregnant women every year. While that number has remained fairly steady over the past decade, the number of those women with high-risk pregnancies increases every year.   Becau...