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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 ...
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December 30, 2020
By Kevin O’Malley, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon
The wrist is a small space with a lot of moving parts. Slender tendons pass through it, transferring power from the muscles in our forearms to our fingers and thumb. These tendons are bundled with th...
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December 05, 2020
By MedStar Health Research Institute
For the third quarter of 2020, we awarded two individuals with the SPIRIT Award for the first time in one quarter, Keith Moyer and Eva Hochberger. Keith Moyer was awarded the SPIRIT of Excellence Awar...
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December 05, 2020
By MedStar Team
Recently published research evaluated pre-op and post-op patient questionnaires to identify if patient responses were related to subsequent emergency department visits 90-days after surgery. “Ri...
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December 05, 2020
By MedStar Team
Congratulations to all MedStar researchers who had articles published in November 2020. The selected articles and link to PubMed provided below represent the body of work completed by MedStar Health i...
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November 18, 2020
In the U.S. and around the world, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women, killing 1.7 million people each year. According to the American Lung Association, the ...
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November 13, 2020
As a computer engineering and computer science undergraduate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Shawn Tejiram, MD, seemed well on his way to a career in information technology. But volu...