Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center names Dr. Elizabeth Mittendorf as Chief of new Breast Surgery Division, joining the Department of Surgery this fall.

BIDMC and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's construction of the region’s only freestanding inpatient cancer hospital has been approved by the city of Boston.

Many US adults—especially young adults and women—are unaware they have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol, BIDMC study finds.

Healthcare Associates (HCA) is a primary care group practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center offering comprehensive health services to enhance quality of life for our patients. We provide ...

Boston – University students are uniquely vulnerable to stress, both psychological and physiological. In addition to academic and financial demands, pursuing higher education often means leaving home ...

BOSTON – ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperformed internal medicine residents and attending physicians at two academic medical ...

BOSTON – Major political and societal events can have dramatic impacts on psychological health and impact sleep and emotional well-being. While conventional wisdom suggests these highly anticipated ...

Boston – With nearly 5 million confirmed cases globally and more than 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, much remains unknown about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. Two critical questions are ...

BOSTON – Rural Americans are less likely to have health insurance, have less access to healthcare services for urgent conditions and are more likely to encounter lower quality care than their urban ...

BOSTON – The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person's physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit – a sugar pill, or a ...

The foot is one of the most complex parts of the skeletal system with 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments. Your foot alone contains almost 25% of all bones in your ...

Ultrasounds are a regular part of prenatal medical care for most pregnant women, and also provide parents with their first glimpses of their developing baby. Although these photographs make for nice ...