MedStar Health Blog

For patients facing kidney failure, getting a transplant is a life-saving option. Abdominal transplantation usually requires big incisions. Recovery can be difficult and prolonged, and traditional su...

A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer often comes with understandable feelings of fear. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat.  About 1/3 of pancreatic cancers are diagnos...

Deciding to donate a kidney is one of the most selfless decisions a person can make. Living donors who give one of their healthy kidneys can spare someone with kidney failure from years on dialysis a...

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell disease (SCD) isn’t a single condition. It’s a group of blood disorders that share a common tendency for the blood cells to assume a banana or sickle shape in low-ox...

More than 42,000 people received a solid organ transplant in 2022, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. And while a new, healthy organ brings hope for improved health, transplant pa...

What’s in store this fall? Below is a list continuing education meetings taking place virtually starting September 2021. Each conference gives you access to earning continuing education credit a...