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June 07, 2024
When it comes to COVID-19, change is nothing new—variant strains of the virus continue to evolve. The latest is KP.2, one of the FLiRT variants of the Omicron strain of the virus. They’re getting att...
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January 02, 2021By MedStar Team
Maureen McNulty, RN, Compliance Assurance Associate was awarded the MedStar Health Nursing Impact Award for MedStar Health for the second quarter of 2020. This award honors nurses who have led efforts...
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December 23, 2020
By Lauren Maragh, MD, Internal Medicine Physician, MedStar Health
The cold, flu, and COVID-19 are all contagious viruses that can be spread through the air. And, because they share many of the same symptoms, it can be hard to tell which one you have when you’re...
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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 17, 2020Effective vaccines to fight COVID-19 have arrived, and they’re our best hope for bringing the current pandemic to an end. In recent news, vaccine manufacturers Pfizer and Moderna released data sh...
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December 08, 2020By Arul M. Thomas, MD, Transplant Hepatology
The liver isn’t just the largest internal organ, it’s among the most important. You can’t live without it. About the size of a football, it’s located in the upper right part of the abdomen and pr...
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December 02, 2020By Robert A. Lager, MD, Interventional Cardiology
Although COVID-19 is largely a respiratory illness, it does not limit itself to the respiratory system. This new virus can affect multiple organs and we’re learning that the virus can affect the ...
