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 – 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 – 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 ...

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 – 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 ...

BOSTON – In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, effectively ending 50 years of federal protections to abortion care. As of October 2023, twenty-six states have since enacted laws ...

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 – 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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON – A growing body of evidence suggests that traditional cancer treatments can paradoxically promote new tumor growth. Now, a team of scientists led by Dipak Panigrahy, MD, and Allison Gartung, ...