MedStar Health Blog

This summer we learned that MedStar Washington Hospital Center has achieved a top spot in U.S. New and World Report’s “Best Hospital” rankings for 2022-2023. After evaluation of more than 4,500 hospi...

Recent advances in diagnostic technology are providing answers for patients with the mysterious heart condition “chest pain syndrome X”—a frustratingly common condition that we used...

Heart disease remains the number one killer of U.S. adults, and the number of young women having heart attacks—sometimes without realizing it—is increasing at an alarming rate. According to a study...

Heart disease is the nation’s leading killer of women, and misinformation about heart health contributes to that tragic statistic.  The heart, which is approximately the size of a closed fist,...

By 2030, an estimated 50% of U.S. adults will be obese—a sharp increase from the approximately 33% who are obese in 2022. With obesity rates on the rise, there’s no better time to bring awareness to ...

Each year, about 900,000 people in the U.S. develop a venous thromboembolism—a serious blood clot that can form in any blood vessel of your body. When a clot develops in a blood vessel in the lungs, ...