MedStar Health Blog

Millions of people get a flu vaccine in the fall as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Medical Association and other professional medical groups. But ma...

When you get a cold or the flu, you want to get better as soon as possible. Many people, at the first sign of illness, call their primary care physician looking for an antibiotic. But antibiotics don’...

Many women with breast cancer never experience any of its signs or symptoms, such as a breast lump, says Christopher Gallagher, MD. Dr. Gallagher wants women to have their breast cancer discover...

Before becoming a nurse navigator, I was a patient myself forging my own personal journey with breast cancer. One of the individuals who helped me was a woman who shared some of her own personal exper...

In Spring 2013, we interviewed three incoming residents: Jason Chen, MD, Surgery; Guillermo Rivell, MD, Internal Medicine; and Alex Shuster, MD, Emergency Medicine, who talked about their expectation...

Once again, many of Georgetown University Hospital's doctors are listed on Northern Virginia Magazine's "top-rated" doctors and hospitals list. The magazine used data from HealthGrades' "Five-Star D...