MedStar Health News

WASHINGTON -- MedStar Health, the largest not-for-profit healthcare system across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region, has named Louis M. Weiner, MD, as director of its MedStar George...

WASHINGTON — When combined with an already FDA-approved chemotherapy, a novel agent developed by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, appears to halt the ability...

Can Talcum Powder Cause Ovarian Cancer? What Women Need to KnowWashington, D.C., September 27, 2017 - A handful of multi-million dollar jury awards to women who used baby powder with talcum, and later...

Washington, D.C., September 27, 2017 - The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is one of the best screening tools for prostate cancer. While there’s no doubt this simple blood test has saved lives ov...

Women with Breast Cancer Get Relief from Painful and Disfiguring Side Effect of Treatment Thanks to New Procedure

American Cancer Society and Cigna Foundation Grants Support “Colon Cancer Prevention in the Neighborhood” Washington, D.C., March 23, 2017 – The American Cancer Society and the Cigna Foundation have c...