Marissa Coviello was 18 years old when she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a chronic and sometimes painful inflammation of the intestine.
At the North Shore Medical Center's Heart Center (NMSC), cardiologists and surgeons, together with doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital, provide advanced cardiac care that's closer to your home and family.
While obesity's physical toll on adults often takes the form of diabetes, heart disease, and other health risks, morbidly overweight children also carry the burden of mental anguish.
As one of the largest rehabilitation facilities in the U.S., Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network provides comprehensive rehabilitation and complex medical management services.
The pros and cons of communicating with your doctor by e-mail are hotly debated within the healthcare community. Questions about patient security and compensation for physicians ...
During a recent successful review of Boston Medical Center (BMC) by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, one patient they surveyed said this: "BMC nurses walk on water without special shoes."
What I love about nursing is that you can do so many different things," says Nancy Hays, a nurse practitioner at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.
Chances are you have used the internet to search for more information about the obscure disease your uncle Joe contracted.
Picture this: a photograph of adorable eight-year-old girls at the local YMCA, attired in bright red swimsuits, and holding trophies from their recent swim meet.
Who among us hasn't spent a night-or maybe more-tossing and turning, longing for sleep, and looking for the dawn?
Deborah Sarro wakes up each day not knowing what her workday will bring. She relishes the variety and spontaneity that her job as a physical therapist offers.
Tracy Cherry has always had the caregiver gene. Her first job, at age 18, was working in a nursing home. Later, she joined Cape Cod Hospital, where she spent five years as a nursing assistant.
On a computer screen in the Department of Radiology at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton floats a three-dimensional image of a human heart ...
You don't have to be an obesity expert to realize that Americans are overweight. Just stand in line at McDonald's, ride the T, or walk through a shopping mall.
From Bill Clinton's bypass surgery to the state of the stent, heart disease is in the news. But just as no two patients are alike, no single remedy is right for every patient.
"We are medical sleuths," says Nancy Vetrano, a clinical laboratory technologist at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Samples of blood, urine, cells, and other tissues undergo batteries of tests in the clinical lab.
As a young girl growing up in Boston's Bromley Heath public housing development, Paula McNichols never dreamed she'd one day manage something as important ...
Richard Longland lived with back pain for years before undergoing surgery at
New England Baptist Hospital last summer to install an artificial disc in his spine.
In the spring of 2002, with Tricia Coblentz just four months into her second pregnancy, an ultrasound revealed a sizable, solid mass growing from her baby girl's mouth.
Why is Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) so popular with nurses? Why do so many take their first nursing job at this leading medical institution, and why do so many make their careers here?
