MedStar Health News

Living Donors Save Lives and Give Others a Second Chance at Life Washington D.C., — While COVID-19 continues to dominant the United States healthcare system, nearly 100,000 Americans are still ...

“I felt like the clock was ticking against me.” Gary Simmons, of Glen Burnie, MD, was doing everything he could to maintain his healthy lifestyle while battling kidney failure caused...

In Season of Giving, Family is Thankful for the Gift of Life (Washington, D.C.,) A Virginia father has received a kidney transplant thanks to his son’s organ donation five months earlier a...

Patients with Hepatitis C Can Safely Receive Kidneys from Hepatitis C-Positive Donors, then be Cured of the Virus

Complex Living Donor Procedure Offered at Few U.S. Transplant Centers

(Washington, D.C.,)  In April 2017 MedStar Georgetown’s Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant (BMT) Program celebrated an exciting milestone by performing its 100th transplant. Stem cell transplantatio...