MedStar Health Blog

Congratulations to all MedStar researchers who had articles published in August 2018. The selected articles and link to PubMed provided below represent the body of work completed by MedStar Health inv...

The MedStar Health Research Institute recognized Cynthia West, manager for the Phoenix Field Office, as the recipient of the 2018 Second Quarter SPIRIT of Excellence Award. Cynthia oversees the Phoeni...

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high-production-volume industrial chemical used in producing polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins used in consumer products, such as storage containers for foods and beverage...

Increasingly younger patients are seeking partial or total hip or knee joint replacement—people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are working and active and who can’t afford to slow down. As such, researc...

Triple-negative breast cancer is notoriously difficult to treat. It grows aggressively, and it lacks the three most common markers (estrogen and progesterone receptors and the HER2-neu protein) ...

A guest post from Joan K Bardsley, MBA, RN, CDE, FAADE, Assistant Vice President of Nursing and Research Integration at the MedStar Health Research Institute. Those of us who work in the area of diabe...