MedStar Health Blog

For years, patients with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity have had to limit their diets to eliminate gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. If they didn’t, they’d run the risk of suffer...

Imagine the triumph of surviving breast cancer. Every test and procedure, every round of therapy was worth it to save your life. But what is a woman to do if the medication that destroyed her ca...

Today’s surgeons can use minimally invasive techniques for many conditions that require surgery. For example, knee replacements can be performed with smaller incisions than in years past, and some sku...

Years ago, before we had advanced and routine imaging, a kidney mass was only discovered when it had become very large, caused pain or caused blood in the urine. Oftentimes, patients’ kidney cancer ha...

Because of her profound hearing loss, Edna Whitted would pass notes back and forth in church with her granddaughter in order to understand what was being said. Now, the 90-year-old Upper Marlboro, Md....

In April 2018, beloved Night Court actor Harry Anderson died at 65 from a cardioembolic stroke, which involves blockage of a brain blood vessel and is among the most common types of stroke. However, o...