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 Magazine has named almost 200 physicians and surgeons from 43 medical specialties affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to its annual ‘Top Doctors’ guide. Drawing from a ...

Boston – For decades, the power of the placebo effect was thought to lie in patients' belief that they were — or at least, could be — receiving a pharmacologically active treatment. A new study by ...

BOSTON – In the three months since Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, more than 10 million Americans have received ...

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 – 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 ...

Your heart suddenly begins racing. You feel pain in your chest and you are short of breath. Are you having a heart attack? Or could it be a panic attack? "Any of these symptoms can be extremely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boston – The development of a safe and effective vaccine will likely be required to end the COVID-19 pandemic. A group of scientists, led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) immunologist ...