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 – 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 – In a recent experiment published in JAMA, physician-researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) tested one well-known publicly available chatbot’s ability to make accurate ...

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 ...

BIDMC Research Briefs showcase groundbreaking scientific advances that are transforming medical care. Long the domain of philosophy and religion, free will has also been defined by scientists as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

After her lifelong battle with an invisible adversary, Susan Mann and her physicians may finally have the upper hand against her treatment-resistant high blood pressure. Mann was just eight years old ...

The intimate link between groundbreaking discoveries and their transformative impact on patient care was palpable at this year’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Cancer Center Symposium.

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 ...