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A post-FDA-approval clinical trial at MedStar Health Research Institute connects patients with first-line Afib treatment, reducing the time from diagnosis to symptom relief. Atrial fibrillation (Afib)...

Our research demonstrates a link between a child’s health and developmental outcomes and their social determinants of health, such as food insecurity, social connectedness, and parental stress...

Clinical trials are an essential way we create new knowledge about how to help our patients heal. Yet, despite our efforts to expedite this work, clinical trials remain inefficient, expensive, slow, ...

This article was written by Kathryn Walker, PharmD and Hunter Groninger, MD.   In collaboration with investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, this NIH-funded research will examine a meth...

A new technology available at MedStar Washington Hospital Center called pulsed field ablation (PFA) offers a treatment option for atrial fibrillation (AFib) that reduces the risk of complications. ...

Funded by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Fund and the J Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, our latest study is a mixed methods exploration of the patient experience factors that underpin dis...