MedStar Health Blog

Andrew Carter, JD, Contracts and Grants Administrator for the MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute was awarded the SPIRIT of Excellence Award for this year’s third quarter. The award was present...

Ian M. Brooks, PhD, has joined the MHRI Biostatics and Biomedical Informatics department as the associate director of biomedical informatics. Dr. Brooks was previously faculty in the Department of Pre...

Screening tests are a powerful weapon in the fight against breast cancer. Mammography is a breast cancer screening tool used to help doctors pinpoint when a change has occurred in a woman’s breast. In spite of these benefits, and in spite of having health insurance, too many women in Washington, D.C. are forgoing their annual breast cancer mammograms out of fear.

For many women, the fear of breast cancer is very real, due to certain risk factors - for example, a family history of breast cancers, being a member of a high-risk group or even aging. The presence o...

Since your diagnosis of breast cancer, you probably have many questions about your disease and treatment. Once you enter the world of doctors, specialists, nurses and paperwork, you may not have the t...

The NIH has released a new policy on training in Good Clinical Practices (GCP) for NIH-funded investigators and staff. Effective January 1, 2017, this policy applies to all NIH-funded investigators an...