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April 17, 2024
By Samer Charbel, MD, FACP, FACG, Chairman of Gastroenterology at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center
Colon cancer remains the third-leading cause of deaths related to cancer in the United States. While the death rate is dropping for older adults since the advent of screening, the disease is killing ...
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September 09, 2022
If you’re ready to quit smoking, there are proven ways to give up the habit—and electronic cigarettes are not one of them. In fact, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently issued a l...
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September 07, 2022
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that there are 268,490 men diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022. Although...
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August 29, 2022
By MedStar Health Research Institute
By Michelle Fischmann Magee, MD and Carine Nassar, RD, CDCES Preliminary research indicates that patients with type 2 diabetes-built confidence and lowered hemoglobin A1C levels while participa...
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August 26, 2022
If you’ve caught a newscast recently, you’re probably aware that there is a small outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S.—around 12,000 cases confirmed here and approximately 32,000 globa...
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August 19, 2022
Thanks to a global vaccination effort, polio was eradicated in the U.S. since 1979 and in most of the world since the 2010s. But in July 2022, a patient in Rockland County, NY, was diagnosed with pol...
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August 10, 2022
By MedStar Team
The ultraviolet (UV) index is highest in spring and summer, so the risk of sun-related damage is highest this time of year. And aside from the short- and long-term dangers of sun exposure, the heat t...