Rural Americans face higher heart disease rates due to social and economic disparities, not just care access, says new BIDMC study on cardiovascular health.

A BIDMC study found that the end of COVID-era SNAP benefits may have resulted in increased food insecurity and deteriorating health for Americans.

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 – Chronic back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. In the United States, patients spend up to $300 billion each year to treat the condition, according to a 2012 study published ...

Medical Office Procedure Detects The Key Biomarker In These Diseases That Could Lead To Earlier Diagnosis and Accelerate Clinical Drug Development BOSTON – In a paper published in the Journal of the ...

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 – 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 ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, Jennifer D., 46, experienced debilitating abdominal pain every time she sneezed. She suffered from endometriosis, an often painful condition—impacting an estimated one in 10 ...

BOSTON — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has achieved Magnet recognition as a reflection of its nursing professionalism, teamwork and superiority in patient care. With this distinction ...

You have probably heard time and time again that smoking cigarettes leads to lung cancer and heart disease. But did you know that tobacco is a risk factor for oral cancer as well? Oral cancer, which ...

Increasing numbers of women, who have been diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast, are opting for bilateral mastectomies to reduce the risk of a future second breast cancer. Until now, there have ...