MedStar Health Blog

Patients with Advanced Liver Cancer Among Those Benefitting Dr. Moin is one of the few specialists in the region performing Y-90 radioembolization. Advances in medicine have created a wide range...

By Chris Goeschel, ScD, MPA, MPS, RN Earlier today Facebook reminded me of a memory from 2015. I am not a daily FB user, and I limit my posts to select, real friends, versus the “I know someone who kn...

Left Image: The target from an MRI is merged with an ultrasound image for targeting. Right Image: The biopsy locations are captured by the MRI-Ultrasound fusion technology. Ideally, doctors would catc...

By Anne Gunderson, Ed.D, MS, GNP In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report that estimated 44,000 to 98,000 people were dying each year in hospitals as a result of medical errors. Even...

Thank you to all the MHRI and MedStar associates who attended and participated in the 2017 Race to Beat Cancer 5K. This charitable event is one of the premier 5K races in Washington, D.C., and was hel...

Prostate cancer can be challenging to detect. Our screening and diagnostic tools—prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy—aren’t perfect. And it...