MedStar Health Blog

Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle gets credit for being the first, or perhaps just the most poetic, to suggest a connection between health and hope: “He who has health, has hope; and he who h...

MedStar Health was the first in the nation to enroll a patient in this multicenter trial of a new device to treat in-stent thrombosis. In rare cases, a stent placed in a vein can develop a blood cl...

In collaboration with Children’s National Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, MedStar Health Research Institute will undertake a series of studies of a new device that could revolutionize our unde...

The investigator-initiated, MedStar Health-sponsored IMPROVE Trial evaluating the utility of Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging (IVUS) to guide optimization of percutaneous Coronary Intervention has en...

Funded by an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health, our research examines the validity of a virtual reality floor maze test that could help identify early signs of Alzheimer’s diseas...

This article was written by D. Max Smith, PharmD, BCPS.   New pharmacogenetic research answers questions about genetics and dosing of the breast cancer drug ribociclib and opens more discus...