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April 12, 2024
Knee replacement surgery is a daunting prospect for many of the 32.5 million adults in the U.S. who have osteoarthritis (OA), the most common type of arthritis. Over time, cartilage in the knee joint...
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November 23, 2020
By Lauren Maragh, MD, Internal Medicine Physician, MedStar Health
The pandemic—and 2020 in general—has been stressful and isolating for many people, and this holiday season, it’s more important than ever to reconnect with loved ones, even if it lo...
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November 23, 2020
By Shawn Tejiram, MD, Burn Surgeon
Did you know that, when it comes to fires and burn injuries, cold-weather holidays—especially Thanksgiving—tend to be the most dangerous of all? Kitchen accidents cause at least half of a...
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November 18, 2020
Editor’s Note: The photo above was taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S. and around the world, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women, killing 1.7 mi...
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November 13, 2020
As a computer engineering and computer science undergraduate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Shawn Tejiram, MD, seemed well on his way to a career in information technology. But volu...
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November 12, 2020
Nearly a million Americans—about one in 300—have multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting the spine, brain and optic nerves. Its cause is uncertain, but we do know that—like in ot...
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November 11, 2020
By Irina Veytsman, MD, Medical hematologist and oncologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer, as more people in the United States die from the disease than any other type of cancer. And, although survival rates are much higher than they were th...