MedStar Health Blog

Expanded access is the process by which investigational treatment options are made available to patients with serious and/or life-threatening diseases or conditions who lack therapeutic alternatives. ...

Center’s New Space Optimizes Care for Older Adults and their Caregivers hennTaking care of an aging parent or other loved one gets more challenging over the years, as 66-yea...

By Heidi Rosvold-Brenholtz Sixty-nine-year-old Jeff Ferrill of Alexandria, Va., can swallow and eat comfortably again, after nearly three years of appointments to treat a rare and complicated gastroi...

Renewal of Hospital Chapel to Provide Comfort for Patients and VisitorsBy Ronni CranwellOver the past 69 years, the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital chapel has been an important place of worship...

The Region’s Busiest Level I Trauma CenterIn the heart of the nation’s capital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Level I Trauma Center has responded to thousands of medical crises, including treat...

Pioneering Heart Care with LVADs Because healthy hearts that are appropriate for transplantation are rare, the medical community has turned to advanced technology to find different ways to treat pati...