MedStar Health News

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 15, 2016 — MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (MedStar NRH) hosted its 30th anniversary Victory Awards® Gala and raised $135,000 for MedStar NRH Adaptive Sports on Wednesday, April 20.

MedStar Georgetown’s Michael Atkins, MD, translated his vast knowledge of cancer immunology into a classroom-style lecture Monday for a standing-room only Congressional briefing. Atkins and five other elite leaders in oncology research, advocacy and industry aimed to educate members of Congress and their staffs about various aspects of cancer.

This is the fourth consecutive year the hospital has been recognized for its commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients, their families, and associates.

Morton’s neuroma is a bothersome cyst that causes numbness, shooting or burning pain in the ball of your foot.

The MedStar Health Bel Air Medical Campus, a 100,000 square-foot comprehensive, integrated medical facility in Harford County, Maryland. The site opened officially on April 12.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center medical intensive care unit 2G achieved an impressive milestone on March 18 (and counting): two years without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), a huge accomplishment for an ICU.