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May 30, 2025Almost 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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October 31, 2017By MedStar Health Research Institute
A MedStar study comparing the load-to-failure and stiffness associated with differing surgical techniques in the repair of elbow fractures was published in The Journal of Hand Surgery. In “Fixation of...
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October 31, 2017By Melanie Powell, MD, Fellow for Quality & SafetyMedStar Institute for Quality & Safety Imagine starting a new job. You immediately feel slightly stressed, right? Regardless of how adequately...
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October 23, 2017In 2014, we made a shocking discovery. While analyzing the data for women who came to our hospital for breast cancer treatment between 2006 and 2011, we found that nearly 22 percent of them had stage ...
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October 17, 2017By Pamela Randolph-Jackson, MD
In the United States, nearly 40 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. And while cancer is, undeniably, a life-changing experience for both patients and t...
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October 16, 2017
Women who have a mastectomy often are concerned with how their breast will look and feel after reconstructive surgery. About 80 percent of women choose to get a breast implant after having breas...
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October 11, 2017By Chris Goeschel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN Earlier today Facebook reminded me of a memory from 2015. I am not a daily FB user, and I limit my posts to select, real friends, versus the “I know someone who kn...
