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May 09, 2025When a person feels deep sadness, we sometimes say they have “a heavy heart.” These feelings could be more than emotions at play for people at risk of heart disease, especially if they last a long ti...
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February 04, 2021By Mouin S. Abdallah, MD, Cardiology
Humans are warm-blooded—we maintain a steady internal body temperature, regardless of surrounding conditions. Under normal circumstances, that temperature remains at...
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December 21, 2020By Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. It’s common to feel stressed and sad occasionally around the winter holidays. In most cases, those feelings are the result of having too many obligations, exp...
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December 09, 2020
By Cheryl Hughes, Licensed clinical social worker, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
It’s never easy to deal with a loss, but the holiday season has a tendency to bring up painful reminders of deceased loved ones. And this year, many Americans may be dealing with grief over the h...
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December 02, 2020
Mental health refers to the general state of how you regulate your behavior, feelings, and thoughts. There’s no standard for measuring what’s normal for you versus what could be a reason...
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October 30, 2020
By Natasha Durant, PhD, Pain Psychologist at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital
According to the Academy of Pain Management, chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. In fact, pain is the most common reason that people see a physician....
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October 30, 2020By MedStar Team
Researchers from across MedStar Health sought to adapt Diabetes to Go (D2Go), a diabetes survival skills education (DSSE) program for delivery on inpatient behavioral health units (BHU) and to evaluat...
