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March 15, 2024
Your appendix is a part of the digestive tract that most people only think about if it acts up with appendicitis. Unfortunately, in rare cases, it can also develop cancer—and young Hispanic people ar...
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October 01, 2020
By Victoria Lai, MD, MS, FACS, Endocrine Surgery
What do music artist Missy Elliot and Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers have in common? Besides being successful public figures, they’ve both battled a common enemy. At the peak of their careers...
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September 29, 2020
In early spring 2020, COVID-19 began to assert itself across the country. As it did, medical facilities nationwide experienced a sudden decrease in traffic to outpatient services and Emergency Departm...
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September 25, 2020
Che Brown has had a rich and varied career within the walls of MedStar Washington Hospital Center, traversing several departments before settling into his latest role. In his current position as admi...
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September 24, 2020
Some health risks can be hard to pin down, challenging to manage or impossible to control. High cholesterol is just the opposite. Although an estimated one in three Americans has it—and decades of ex...
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September 22, 2020
Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), particularly those who specialize in Orthopedics, found themselves in unfamiliar territory during the height of the pandemic this past spring. As elective surgerie...
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September 17, 2020
Prostate cancer is among the most common cancers in the United States, but also among the most survivable. Although it’s estimated that as many as 80 percent of men will develop it, most forms of the...