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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a new guidance in June 2018 that provides clarification on the use and disclosure of protected health information ...

Jessica E. Galarraga, MD, MPH, has been awarded an Early Career Research Development Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) to continue her research evaluating the health care delivery eff...

The number of first-time total knee replacements, also known as arthroplasties, is expected to grow by 673 percent, reaching 3.48 million procedures by 2030, according to a study published by t...

As the American Cancer Society notes, doctors diagnose about 10,000 pituitary tumors each year in the United States. However, that’s actually just a fraction of the number of tumors that people likely...

Heart valve disease, a malfunction of one or more of the valves that allow blood to flow through the heart, affects roughly 2.5 percent of the U.S. population. More than 6 million people live i...

As part of the MedStar Health commitment to our associates and our goal of supporting continuous learning and professional development, the following classes are now open for registration through&nbsp...