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Tips for Finding Health Information Online
Cancer patients may go online to better understand their situations and for help with decision-making. Find tips for locating trustworthy sources on the web.
Dressing after a Mastectomy
Living with Cancer blog from BIDMC in Boston gives tips on how to dress after a mastectomy. Read more on our website.
Current Psychosis Research Studies
BIDMC's Psychosis Research Program (PRP) studies schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. Learn more about PRP’s current clinical research studies here.
From Crisis to Control: New Clinic for Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure
Oded Gefen lived with uncontrolled high blood pressure for years despite medications and lifestyle changes. His hypertension put him at risk for stroke, heart attack, and congestive heart failure. Learn how Oded is now effectively managing his resistant hypertension with the help of BIDMC’s Complex Hypertension Clinic.
Research Reveals Potential Target for Alcohol Liver Disease
BOSTON – Drinking too much alcohol can damage the liver, but investigators have discovered a protective response in the organ that might be targeted to help treat alcoholic liver disease. The team -- led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania -- also found that the same protective response may be involved in aversion to alcohol and could therefore help in the treatment of alcoholism. The research involves a protein called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which the scientists previously found helps protect mice against diet-related toxicities to the liver. “Looking at the relationship between alcohol-induced liver disease and FGF21 was the next step,” said co-senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. In this latest work, published online today in Molecular Metabolism, people who binged on alcohol over a one-hour period exhibited massive increases of FGF21 in their blood six hours later. Similar results were seen in mice. Also, in mice bred to lack FGF21, binging on alcohol led to more liver damage than that seen in wild-type mice, along with an increased expression
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship Program
BIDMC's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine welcomes your interest in our clinical and research fellowship training program. Learn more about our fellowship.
Billing and Financial Assistance
BIDMC offers patients a secure portal to pay hospital medical bills online. Learn more about billing and financial assistance, or pay your bill online now.
Medicine Simulations
Simulation and Procedural Training:Carl J. Shapiro Simulation and Skills CenterOpening its doors in 2006, the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation and Skills Center (SASC) offers hands-on, cross- disciplinary training to physicians, medical students, nurses, and all other members of the clinical team. SASC grew out of the nationally recognized Minimally Invasive Skills Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and became the first in New England to be formally accredited by the American College of Surgeons as a Level 1 Accredited Education Institute facility. Participants have an unparalleled opportunity to practice their skills with cutting-edge technology, master new techniques on task trainers, gain confidence in emergency room, intensive care unit or operating theatre situations, and improve cognitive reasoning. SASC was established with the support of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, the BIDMC Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, and the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research. As a multidisciplinary facility,
MERIT
The Liver-Kidney service, referred to as the “Epstein-Trey” service, is so named for two famous BIDMC physicians: Dr. Charles Trey, a gastroenterologist/hepatologist, and Dr. Franklin Epstein, a nephrologist. On this rotation, housestaff manage patients with end-stage liver disease under the guidance of an attending hepatologist. Residents also care for undergoing evaluation for renal or liver transplant, or that have recently undergone transplantation. Commonly encountered diagnoses include acute and chronic graft rejection, acute renal failure, hepatic encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and refractory ascites. Residents frequently perform diagnostic and therapeutic paracenteses on this service, with the Hepatology fellow overseeing all procedures.
Food is Your Friend
Food is central to everyone’s life. Physically, food is a necessity! But, hunger isn’t always the reason we eat. There are important social, cultural and emotional components to eating.