MedStar Health Blog

Almost half of people with metastatic melanoma—a type of skin cancer that has spread beyond the skin—can become resistant to standard treatments. A new immunotherapy available at MedStar ...

Medications for movement disorders can help patients regain control of motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, and slowness. Yet for some patients, these medications can become less effective over ...

This article was written by Hellina Birru, MD, Michelle Deville, RN, and Heather Fitzhugh-Boehm, RN. Two MedStar Health teams come together to bring research opportunities to patients at home, expa...

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...

In collaboration with Children’s National Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, MedStar Health Research Institute will undertake a series of studies of a new device that could revolutionize our unde...

Funded by an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, our research examines the validity of a virtual reality floor maze test that could help identify early signs of Alzheimer’s diseas...