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February 04, 2025
MedStar Health was the first in the nation to enroll a patient in this multicenter trial of a new device to treat in-stent thrombosis. In rare cases, a stent placed in a vein can develop a blood cl...
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February 05, 2019
Artery buildups serve as silent danger signs of a heart attack, and one of the buildups we look for the most is calcium. A coronary calcium score is a type of heart scan that calculates a patient&rsq...
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February 02, 2019
By MedStar Health Research Institute
Join more than 3,000 interventional and endovascular specialists at Cardiovascular Research Technologies Conference (CRT) 2018 for a comprehensive four-day interventional cardiology conference featuri...
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December 24, 2018
The holidays offer us time with friends and family, and sometimes even vacations from work. But one thing we have noticed over the years is that the holidays and winter months also correspond with in...
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December 07, 2018
During his training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Anirudh Rao, MD, found the most meaningful cases to be those involving end-of-life issues, including those with di...
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November 27, 2018
The pituitary gland is a tiny organ, only about the size of a pea, located at the base of your brain. I think of the pituitary gland like the conductor of a mighty orchestra. As part of the endocrine ...
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November 20, 2018
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a well-known condition in America. We regularly check it during doctor’s visits and see blood pressure monitors in many of the stores we visit every da...