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Managing Hot Flashes
Breast cancer treatments, both chemotherapy and hormonal therapies, can result in hot flashes. Chemotherapy can move a woman along into an early menopause, and hormonal therapies are designed to deplete estrogen. Learn how to manage hot flashes at BIDMC in Boston.
Sex After Baby
What?!! Well, yes, let’s talk about it. It’s likely something that you and your partner (if you’re partnered) are thinking about. And for all of the thinking and angsting that we do about it, we spend very little time actually talking about it. S-E-X! There, the elephant in the room is no longer invisible. Let’s get to it.
What to Expect
You have just had a peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter placed in your abdomen. In the next few weeks, you will be working with a peritoneal dialysis nurse to learn how to manage your PD on your own.
Handling Cancer and COVID-19 Fears
Your list of cancer fears now includes anxiety about COVID-19 exposure. Learn how to manage your cancer and coronavirus fears here.
Study Initiation
To initiate a study, please send us an email to LongwoodSAIF@bidmc.harvard.edu and briefly describe the project, study aims, and resources you might need from the SAI Facility. If you are unsure about methods or modalities, please indicate this in the message. We will schedule a meeting with you to discuss your study goals and other details, and we will help to determine an appropriate imaging strategy. The Lab Manager will email you the Client Package and User Agreement to get started. Imaging Rates: Please find our rates below: Price ListThis document provides information to help planning your study and budget with our rates: Planning Your Study
Recipes: Potassium-Rich Sweet Potatoes
Potassium can help manage your blood pressure, and sweet potatoes are a great potassium-filled food. One sweet potato contains nearly 700 mg of potassium, approximately 15 percent of the recommended daily amount. These sweet potato recipes from the CVI’s Healthy Heart Cookbook make for interesting flavor combinations.
Scientists Visualize the Connections Between Eye and Brain
To shed more light on how neurons in this labyrinthine network integrate information – that is, precisely how multiple neurons send and combine their messages to a target neuron – a team of researchers at BIDMC and Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) focused on a rare case in which information only travels in one direction: from the retina to the brain.
Living an Active Life with Heart Failure
In 2017, Jim Rand was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Learn how BIDMC's CardioVascular Institute (CVI) helps him treat and manage his condition.
Nutrition tips for cancer patients
Cancer treatment can cause appetite loss, nausea and other side effects. Get nutrition tips and advice to help you manage your appetite through treatment.
When You Have Cancer: The Importance of Relationships
When you have cancer, relationships become very important. Find tips for identifying people in your life who can help you while you manage cancer.
Lymphedema after breast cancer
Many women deal with lymphedema after breast cancer. Find out more about this side effect of cancer surgery as well as treatment options and other resources.
Oncology Rehabilitation
Physical therapy helps relieve pain from cancers (lymphedema, et al.) and cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or surgery. Learn more about our PT services.
Referring Patients for Arrhythmia Management & Treatment
BIDMC's Arrhythmia Services diagnose, manage and treat all types of complex atrial and ventricular arrhythmia. Call us at 617-667-8800 to refer a patient.
Thumbs-Up for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The American Society of Clinical Oncology sees value in complementary and alternative medicine therapies for cancer treatment with some caveats. Learn more.
Five Tips for Managing Gestational Diabetes
It's important that pregnant women with gestational diabetes keep their blood sugar levels under control. Here are 5 tips on how to manage it during pregnancy.