MedStar Health Blog

Your blood pressure can lie. It changes throughout the day, but too often, we rely on one blood pressure measurement taken in a doctor’s office.There often isn’t time to take an accurate blood pressur...

Common tests during pregnancy include ultrasounds and blood sugar screenings. But heart tests – such as electrocardiograms (EKGs) – are also sometimes necessary.Obstetricians discuss and evaluate thei...

Prostate cancer is notoriously tricky to detect. It often doesn’t cause symptoms until it’s advanced, and there are no routine imaging tests, like mammograms for breast cancer.But a new study publishe...

Tune in to the full podcast interview with Dr. Magee.According to the CDC, 29 million people in the United States today have diabetes.  Worse, one out of every three children born here can expect to b...

Survival rates for burn patients have improved drastically over the years thanks to advances made in burn treatment. Unfortunately, the physical needs of patients often overshadow their emotiona...