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April 06, 2026Research: LVAD and Support Offer Patients with Advanced Heart Failure Another Chance for Transplant.Our research, published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure – Intersections, finds that most patients with modifiable barriers to heart transplant can resolve them with team-based support after LVAD.&n...
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June 17, 2024
MedStar Health Research Institute is now enrolling patients in the prospective, multi-center Pathfinder 2 trial of an early detection test for multiple types of cancer. The sooner cancer is found, th...
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May 28, 2024
This article was written by Kathryn Walker, PharmD and Hunter Groninger, MD. In collaboration with investigators at the University of Pennsylvania, this NIH-funded research will examine a meth...
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May 24, 2024
A new technology available at MedStar Washington Hospital Center called pulsed field ablation (PFA) offers a treatment option for atrial fibrillation (AFib) that reduces the risk of complications. ...
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May 20, 2024
By Neil J. Weissman, MD, Chief Scientific Officer
Technology is changing faster than ever before. When Uber launched in 2009, it took nearly 6 years for the app to reach 100 million users. ChatGPT reached that same milestone in only 2 months. Medi...
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May 13, 2024
Funded by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Fund and the J Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, our latest study is a mixed methods exploration of the patient experience factors that underpin dis...
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May 09, 2024
As part of our groundbreaking research funded by the National Science Foundation, we are researching bio-inspired exosuits as a new, innovative approach to assist movement and stimulate the recovery ...
