MedStar Health Blog

When a patient comes to us with symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath, they’re usually worried that they’re having a heart attack. While ruling out a heart attack based on imagin...

Each year, an estimated 200,000 people in the U.S. get a pacemaker—consisting of a metal, disc-shaped battery surgically placed under the skin of the chest and connected to the inside chambers of the...

Novel research from MedStar Health helps pave the road for the future of echocardiography, through the development and implementation of machine learning tools that improve the accuracy of this cardi...

September was peripheral artery disease (PAD) awareness month, but it’s never too late to talk about this often silent, but serious condition. Nearly 6.5 million people in the United States forty and ...

MedStar Health Research Institute is leading a global effort to understand better coronary microvascular dysfunction with a worldwide patient data registry.   Through a first-of-its-kind free gl...

MedStar Health Research Institute was the first in the world to enroll a patient in this critical study of a device to improve complex aortic arch disease treatment.    Patients with comple...