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At MedStar Health Research Institute, we recognize our nurses’ contributions as valued and respected members of the research team. They truly focus on the participants in our research as the whole per...

Congratulations to all MedStar researchers who were published in April 2017. The selected articles and link to PubMed provided below represent the body of work completed by MedStar Health investigator...

A 30-year-old man came to our emergency room with excruciating pain in both hips. He had been experiencing pain for several years, but it had become so bad he hadn’t been able to walk for a couple wee...

If you Google “pregnancy apps,” there’s no shortage of articles with titles such as “10 best pregnancy apps” or “Must-have apps during pregnancy.” Accor...

Some people with Type 2 diabetes can manage the disease with diet and exercise alone. Others need medication, in addition to lifestyle management, to reach their target blood sugar levels, and many wi...

Bariatric surgery has been available in the U.S. for more than 50 years, and surgeons are doing more every year. In fact, our team performed 336 of these procedures in 2016, compared with 257 in 2013....