MedStar Health Blog

Nearly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas each year. In the vast majority of these cases — approximately 95 percent — patients have one specific type of cancer: adenocarcinoma ...

From relieving pain to reducing symptoms to restoring peace of mind, palliative care helps seriously ill patients live a better life.

As a loving husband and devoted father, Earl always took his physical health seriously. He never smoked, scheduled annual physicals and went to the dentist regularly. He was doing everything he ...

Congratulations to all researchers who were published in October 2016. There were 48 peer-reviewed studies published in 38 journals that are part of the body of work completed by MedStar Health invest...

Having a healthy diet has never been easier thanks to MedStar Health and WellRooted providing convenient and diverse meal options delivered to your door.

Screening tests are a powerful weapon in the fight against breast cancer. Mammography is a breast cancer screening tool used to help doctors pinpoint when a change has occurred in a woman’s breast. In spite of these benefits, and in spite of having health insurance, too many women in Washington, D.C. are forgoing their annual breast cancer mammograms out of fear.