Sibley Memorial Hospital provides a wide range of healthcare services to the Washington, D.C., area communities. We offer medical, surgical, intensive care, obstetric, oncology, orthopaedic, and a ...

A federally funded clinical trial suggests knowing HIV viral load (number of HIV particles in the body) doesn’t improve the ...

Paper in @jclinicalinvest (bit.ly/497z6jo) by @HopkinsMedicine @JHUMed_ID finds patient living w/ #HIV has dramatic drop in ...

Postpartum thyroiditis happens when a person’s thyroid gland becomes inflamed within 1 year of delivering a baby or having a miscarriage or abortion. This condition affects a small percentage of ...

A noninvasive blood test to detect genetic material shed by tumors may help clinicians identify adverse events related to ...

Emily Stanley of Finksburg calls her son, Weston, a “fighter.” On the day Weston was born, Stanley and her partner, Logan ...

Polydactyly occurs when a baby is born with one or more extra fingers or toes. It is the most common congenital limb difference. The most common type of polydactyly results in an extra small finger or ...

Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology. It uses very small amounts of a radioactive substance (radionuclide or radio-tracer) for health research, diagnosis, and treatment of various ...

Electrical signals control the beating of your heart. They tell your heart muscle when to contract, a process known as conduction. The normal timing of heartbeats is generated in the upper chamber of ...

It’s exhausting to sift through your social media feeds to find wellness tips that will actually help alleviate the symptoms associated with perimenopause. Tina Zhang, an assistant professor of ...

What is chronic venous insufficiency? Chronic venous insufficiency occurs when your leg veins don’t allow blood to flow back up to your heart. Normally, the valves in your veins make sure that blood ...

Experiments with human immune system cells offer a glimpse into how researchers could eventually put HIV into a permanent, unharmful slumber In a study of human immune cells infected with HIV, the ...