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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.
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.
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.
Out and About with Baby
Remember when running to the drugstore, picking up the dry cleaning and stopping at the grocery store were simple tasks that you could easily manage in one outing without even thinking about it? Yes, that would have been in your previous life, the life you led before you became the parent of an infant.
Dating after Cancer
Back at work today after a truly wonderful few days at Wonderwell. It is always tough to return to the normal routine, as good as that routine must be. Today's topic is dating after cancer. As far as I know, having had cancer is never a bonus in the singles scene, and there are many concerns and questions about how to manage this reality.
Videoconferencing Between Hospital Clinicians and Nursing Home Staff Lowers Use of Physical Restraint, Antipsychotics in Patients with Dementia
BOSTON – Nursing homes in the United States care for increasing numbers of people with dementia, yet many lack access to geriatric psychiatrists, behavioral neurologists and other specialists who may help manage symptoms associated with dementia, including behavioral issues. As a result, nursing home staff may resort to physical restraints or antipsychotic medications to manage behavioral challenges, which can significantly compromise a patient’s health, autonomy and dignity. A new study, led by clinician researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Hebrew SeniorLife and published online in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, has found that use of video consultation technology that brings together nursing home staff and hospital-based clinical experts was associated with significant reductions in the use of physical restraints and antipsychotic medication among patients with dementia. Researchers found that patients in the facilities involved in the study were 75 percent less likely to be physically restrained and 17 percent less likely to be prescribed antipsychotic medications. “There is a two-pronged issue facing nursing homes in the United States: shortages of geriatricians, behavioral neurologists and geriatric psychiatrists and a lack of proximity of community nursing homes to larger medical facilities with specialists,” said corresponding author
Liver and Kidney
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.
Breast Cancer and Integrative Therapies
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently endorsed complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for breast cancer treatment. Learn more.