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 ...

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 – 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 – 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 – High blood pressure – or hypertension – is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke that affects as many as 100 million Americans and 1 billion people worldwide. Decades of research ...

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 ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Since last fall, when the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology lowered the ...

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 – 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 ...

Researchers at BIDMC Found Physicians Using Chatbots Spent More Time on Patient Cases and Made Safer Decisions Compared to Colleagues Without AI Access “Early implementation of AI into healthcare has ...

Boston – The findings of a nationwide survey assessing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional wellbeing of U.S. adults show 90 percent of survey respondents reported experiencing ...

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 ...