MedStar Health Blog

An analysis of the effect of diet on postmenopausal women as part of the Women’s Health Initiative shows that reducing fats and increasing vegetable, fruit, and grain intake can reduce the risk of nee...

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

In the 1990s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a treatment for bladder cancer called Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy, or BCG, which stimulates the immune system and helps keep patients...

Doctors are seeing more patients with thyroid cancer in the last 30 years, as data from the American Cancer Society show. Thyroid cancer is the fastest-growing cancer diagnosis in the United Sta...

Michael Sherman, DO, director of MedStar Washington Hospital Center’s Nephrology and Hypertension Clinic, says solving problems and working with people motivated his choice of a career in medicine. Ye...

People sometimes mistakenly think that accepting palliative care means they have to stop receiving other medical treatment. However, palliative care is a specialty service that can be provided at any ...