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Who’s at Risk for Heart Disease?
How does the heart work? Your heart is a lot like your house, complete with a framework, plumbing, and an…
The Effects of Stress on the Heart
When it comes to activities that affect the heart, there’s the good (a healthy lifestyle), the bad (unhealthy risk factors),…
Why Processed Foods Are Not Good for the Heart
The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that 50 percent of calories consumed by the average American come from ultra-processed foods….
Injuries from Electric Shock Require Focused Treatment
If you’ve ever received an electrical shock, even a minor one, you know what a jolt to your system it…
5 Things Athletes Should Know About Their Hearts
Performance athletics—in fact, any form of intense exercise—increases the body’s need for oxygen. Elite and endurance athletes, in particular, experience…
Celebrated Physician: Samir Sur, MD
Samir Sur, MD, has been immersed in science for as long as he can remember. So it’s appropriate that as…
Protecting Heart Health in the Winter Months
Humans are warm-blooded—we maintain a steady internal body temperature, regardless of surrounding conditions. Under normal circumstances, that temperature remains at just below 99oF/37oC. This process happens…
5 Things Women Need to Know About Their Heart
Women are often said to have big hearts, or soft hearts, or hearts of gold. But with cardiovascular disease in women trending nearly as high as in men—and heart…
A “Nearly Indestructible” Man Gets a New Heart
Monti Schmitt is one of those rare individuals whose idea of fun was riding off-road over rough terrain on a…
Celebrated Physician: Kyle Reynolds, MD
As a longtime athlete, Kyle Reynolds, MD, knows that the course of a game can be altered in a heartbeat….
Using Blue Light Cystoscopy to Treat Bladder Cancer
Did you know that bladder cancer is the fourth most common non-skin cancer in the U.S.? Unlike prostate cancer, for…
Laser Revision Can Help with Serious Scarring
Whatever the cause—burns, trauma or surgery—scars can have a negative impact on a patient’s quality of life. In decades past,…
Celebrated Physician: Andrew Y. Lee, MD
The complex anatomy of the head and neck has long fascinated Andrew Lee, MD, an otolaryngologist at MedStar Washington Hospital…
Weekend Warriors: Avoid Injury on Snow and Ice (Part 3 in a Series)
Skiing, skating and sledding can be great wintertime fun. But the elements that bring the greatest thrill to these sports—gravity,…
Varicose Veins: The Latest in Treatment and Prevention
There is good news for those who have varicose veins or are worried about developing them in the future. Today’s…
Growing from Within: Ed Palmer
When Ed Palmer was a respiratory therapist student at Prince George’s Community College, he had a professor who worked at…
Bloodless Medicine and Surgery: Treating Patients without Transfusions
Is it possible to perform medical and surgical procedures without transfusion or without using blood products such as whole blood,…
Improve Quality of Life with Breast Reduction Surgery
If overly large breasts have caused you years of head, neck and back pain, the decision to have medical breast…
The Many Health Benefits of Bariatric Surgery
Obesity is quickly becoming a worldwide health crisis. One recent study suggests that it may soon surpass world hunger as…
Mindful Eating for Healthy Weight Loss
Maintaining a healthy weight can be a constant challenge—and potentially more so in a pandemic situation. Many of us are…
How We Relieve Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The wrist is a small space with a lot of moving parts. Slender tendons pass through it, transferring power from…
Throat Cancer: Quick Action is Key
Although not as common as other cancers, throat cancer will affect some 53,000 Americans this year and nearly 11,000 will…
A Long-Awaited Dream Is Realized
Life was bliss for 25-year-old Tyquela Able. It was 2015 and she was loving motherhood and her new baby boy,…
5 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues during COVID-19
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. It’s common to feel stressed and sad occasionally around the winter holidays. In most cases,…
The COVID-19 Vaccines Are Here
Effective vaccines to fight COVID-19 have arrived, and they’re our best hope for bringing the current pandemic to an end….
Finding Relief from Post-Nasal Drip
The season of allergies and colds is upon us and, with it, the all-too-familiar runny nose and its frequent companion,…
Coffee and Colorectal Cancer: Here’s What We Know
Coffee. It’s the beverage that helps so many Americans power through a busy day. More than half the population over…
The Importance of a Healthy Liver
The liver isn’t just the largest internal organ, it’s among the most important. You can’t live without it. About the…
Heart Disease in COVID-19 Survivors
Although COVID-19 is largely a respiratory illness, it does not limit itself to the respiratory system. This new virus can…
Pelvic Care After Childbirth: What New Moms Can Expect
The human body is truly amazing. An expectant mother’s body prepares for and recovers from delivery in ways that are…
How to Avoid Cooking Burns This Thanksgiving
Did you know that, when it comes to fires and burn injuries, cold-weather holidays—especially Thanksgiving—tend to be the most dangerous…
Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis: Knowing the Difference
4-Minute Read Most people don’t pay much attention to their colon health. Until there’s trouble. That’s unfortunate because one of…
Improving Lung Cancer Diagnoses with Navigational Bronchoscopy
Editor’s Note: The photo above was taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the U.S. and around the world, lung…
Celebrated Physician: Shawn Tejiram, MD
As a computer engineering and computer science undergraduate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Shawn Tejiram, MD, seemed…
Multiple Sclerosis: Early Intervention Can Mean a Bright Future
Nearly a million Americans—about one in 300—have multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease affecting the spine, brain and optic nerves….
Nerve-Sparing Surgery: The Long-Range Benefits
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Have you heard about nerve-sparing surgery? Although not a new concept, it was a little-known…
Lung Cancer in Women: Quitting Smoking Is Not Enough
When Dana Reeve—wife of disabled actor Christopher Reeve and a well-known activist for disabled persons’ rights—succumbed to lung cancer at…
Our Team Approach to Spine Care
MedStar Orthopaedic Institute has a uniquely qualified team dedicated to spine surgery. The spine specialists here are specially trained and experienced in caring…
Growing from Within: Tysheen Twitty
Tysheen Twitty joined MedStar Washington Hospital Center in 2012, coming onboard as an intern in a 90-day manager-in-training program with…
Probiotics and Gut Health
Those with nagging digestive issues have probably heard or read about probiotics and prebiotics by now. Often touted as a…
Esophageal Cancer: Know the Risks
Are you a tea drinker, sometimes drinking multiple cups a day? It may be time to “cool things down.” A…
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy: Simplicity, Speed, Convenience
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Over the past decade, advances in breast cancer have been changing women’s lives for the…
African Americans & Health: Focus on Chronic Kidney Disease (Part 3 in a Series)
True or false: Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, causes more deaths than breast cancer or prostate cancer. The answer: True!…
Targeting & Fighting Breast Cancer in Its Many Forms
After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women; only lung cancer is deadlier. This serious disease…
COVID-19 and Flu Season
Influenza (or what we commonly call flu) is one of several viruses which can infect the respiratory tract and cause…
Once a Patient, Now an Associate: Lynel’s Story
Seven years ago, Lynel McFadden was diagnosed with stage one, triple negative breast cancer, and she was understandably scared. She…
Moving Neurosurgery Into the Future
MedStar Washington Hospital Center made history this summer when it became the first hospital in the United States to perform…
Celebrated Physician: Jennifer Tran, MD, MBA
Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Jennifer Tran, MD, MBA, was instilled with all the ingredients of healthy living. Her parents…
Graves’ Disease: What Patients Need to Know
What do music artist Missy Elliot and Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers have in common? Besides being successful public figures,…
Don’t Delay Medical Care
In early spring 2020, COVID-19 began to assert itself across the country. As it did, medical facilities nationwide experienced a…