MedStar Health News

“Take10 Montgomery” is a campaign to earn HEARTSafe Community status, where residents are 10% more likely to survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. SILVER SPRING, Md. — MedStar H...

Clinton, MD – Interventional cardiologist, Sonia Samtani, MD, and an all-female team of specialists, performed the region’s first drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty in April at MedStar ...

Composite samples of the MRI images that AStrID, the Acute Stroke Imaging Database, will draw on to advance research that promises to optimize stroke rehabilitation. Collaboration between Georgetown a...

Two patients at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital receive recently FDA-approved Evoque Tricuspid Valve Replacements for severe tricuspid regurgitation. BALTIMORE— In two separate procedures, MedSt...

CLINTON, Md. - MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center was re-designated a Maryland STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) Center, also known as a Cardiac Intervention Center (CIC), by the Maryl...

Innovative cardiac ablation zaps tissue to help heartbeat stay in rhythm. WASHINGTON – MedStar Washington Hospital Center is the first in the greater Washington and Baltimore regions to use an i...