MedStar Health Blog

MedStar Health investigators study how applying algorithms to electronic health records can find red flags in a pregnant patient’s medical information that may put them at risk for maternal health com...

Heart disease is the nation’s leading killer of women, and misinformation about heart health contributes to that tragic statistic.  The heart, which is approximately the size of a closed fist,...

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women across the globe. Nearly one in every eight women will develop breast cancer, and in 2020 alone, more than 2.3 million women were diagnosed...

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world among developing countries. For decades, medical providers have understood that social and environmental inequities imp...

If you are undergoing breast cancer treatment, you may need surgery or radiation, which can affect nearby lymph nodes in the armpit. Lymph nodes are responsible for draining lymphatic fluid from the b...

Since well before the horrific Tuskegee Experiment, Black patients have had a complicated relationship with health care systems, steeped in generational mistrust and compounded by personal experience....