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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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February 12, 2019
Relaxing is an important part of life—even for the heart. When the heart has trouble relaxing between beats, the left chamber (left ventricle) can’t completely refill with blood. This res...
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February 08, 2019
Good physicians learn a great about their patients’ condition through observation, and skin is often the most revealing attribute of all. “Dermatology is sometimes called an ‘old-sc...
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February 05, 2019
Artery buildups serve as silent danger signs of a heart attack, and one of the buildups we look for the most is calcium. A coronary calcium score is a type of heart scan that calculates a patient&rsq...
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February 02, 2019
By MedStar Health Research Institute
Research from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studied patient characteristics and predictors that may impact patient outcomes of changing the blood thinn...
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February 02, 2019
By MedStar Health Research Institute
The end of 2018 marked a milestone for the MedStar Health Biobank and Clinical Library, with more than 100 participants enrolling in the joint Indivumed- MedStar project. Over 300 samples were collect...
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January 22, 2019
When the first minimally invasive surgery—also called laparoscopic surgery—was performed in the early 1900s, a surgeon would use a hollow wooden tube with a candle to look in a patient&rs...