MedStar Health Blog

For decades, women with uterine fibroids, or benign growths inside the uterus, commonly have been offered two options to manage the symptoms—get a hysterectomy, or just deal with the pain.Uterine fibr...

Imagine you’re walking to the bus or train when you spot a person lying on the ground, blood pooling under their leg. What do you do? The first instinct for many people is to freeze. Unfortunately, t...

Joint pain from cartilage or tissue injury in the knee and shoulder can make it painful to run, play sports, walk or even stand. Although clinical exams and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) play a lar...

Doctors are seeing more patients with thyroid cancer in the last 30 years, as data from the American Cancer Society show. Thyroid cancer is the fastest-growing cancer diagnosis in the United Sta...

The thyroid is an organ located in the front of the neck that’s involved in several major bodily functions. Breathing, heart rate, body temperature and more are affected by how well the th...

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...