MedStar Health Blog

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

Cigarettes and other tobacco products contain one of the world’s most addictive substances: nicotine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that a little more than 15 percent ...

In November 2017, martial arts expert and actor Chuck Norris filed a lawsuit in California alleging an ingredient in a contrast dye used in a specific type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) poisoned...

On Nov. 13, 2017, two leading health groups, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), jointly released new guidelines that group more individuals into the cat...

For years, patients with angina (chest pain) caused by blockages in the arteries have been treated with medications. When medications alone aren’t enough, cardiologists have turned to stents—small mes...

Ultrasound’s long history as a medical tool dates back to the 1940s.  Today, diagnostic ultrasound’s ability to image in real-time, along with its excellent safety record and modern-day portabili...