MedStar Health Blog

One of the best things you can do for your heart health this season? Get a flu shot. Researchers in the Netherlands published a study this summer that confirmed the risk for myocardial infarction (...

Everyone’s breasts are different, made up of a unique combination of fat, milk glands, ducts, and fibrous connective tissue. Your individual combination of these types of tissues affects the density ...

Research demonstrates that remote blood pressure monitoring and education programs for expectant and new mothers close care gaps with real-time feedback and intervention.   Developing or ...

The first days and weeks at home following labor and delivery can be a magical and exhausting experience for new mothers. For some, it can be a dangerous time, too. Hypertensive disorders of pregnanc...

When it comes to COVID-19, change is nothing new—variant strains of the virus continue to evolve. The latest is KP.2, one of the FLiRT variants of the Omicron strain of the virus. They’re getting att...

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. ...