MedStar Health Blog

Christina (Tina) Stanger, MA, CRA, Director of MHRI’s Office of Contract and Grant Management, was recognized as the fourth quarter 2017 SPIRIT of Excellence Award recipient. The award was presented b...

The Revised Common Rule compliance date is quickly approaching on January 19, 2018. The Office of Research Integrity and MHRI leadership are working to ensure required changes to our policies and proc...

Recently published research at MedStar investigated the link between the educational level of study participants and treatment preferences for type 2 diabetes medication. This stratification study sou...

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...