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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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September 05, 2020
By MedStar Team
Researchers at MedStar Health sought to assess failure rate, outcomes, and patient satisfaction in patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair with suture augmentation for clinical ...
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September 05, 2020
By MedStar Team
Research compliance encompasses a wide variety of issues including research billing. Billing compliance ensures all services in a trial are paid for by helping to reduce double billing and preven...
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September 01, 2020
By Victoria Lai, MD, MS, FACS, Endocrine Surgery
Of the prevalent diseases affecting patients today, we know that cancer is the deadliest. But thyroid cancer is a type of cancer that can be treated quite successfully—and it has a very high survival...
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August 27, 2020
Cardiac PET scan technology promises to elevate cardiovascular diagnoses to a completely new level. Positron emission tomography (or PET) is traditionally associated with cancer care....
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August 05, 2020
More than two decades ago, Ariam Yitbarek came onboard at MedStar Washington Hospital Center as a nurse in the Cardiac Surgery Step-Down Unit and loved that patient population. She had ambition to mo...
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August 01, 2020
By MedStar Team
A collaborative team of researchers from across MedStar Health published a case report which examined the need for improved situation awareness of all telehealth operations to effectively monitor and ...