Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Two of the state’s largest hospital systems and the University of Massachusetts Medical School announced this week they will be requiring their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Beth Israel Lahey Health said Tuesday all clinicians and staff in the hospital system must be vaccinated against coronavirus, as well as the flu, by Oct. 31. By Oct. 15, all current…

American rower Gevvie Stone’s goal is to go back to Boston with a new medal to wear with her stethoscope: preferably an Olympic gold medal. Stone, who won a silver medal in single sculls at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has delayed her career as a doctor in emergency room medicine for nearly three years in pursuit of one…

As schools across Massachusetts are preparing for a full return to the classroom, a new study is looking at social distancing between students — specifically if there’s more coronavirus cases in school districts that require less physical distance between students. The study was led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and its findings were published this…

A Boston hospital is starting a new project where vaccinated volunteers help comfort patients who are battling the coronavirus and may be feeling isolated.

Boston researchers found a big increase in cardiovascular deaths during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic, especially in hard-hit places like New York City, though no rise was found in Massachusetts.

Ellery Spencer, a NICU nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, raised $2,700 for Dan Manabat, the manager at Aquitaine in Chestnut Hill, who personally delivered a Christmas dinner to her at the hospital while she was working a 12-hour shift.

There are a handful of potential coronavirus vaccines in the works, including one developed in Boston. Here’s how they may work.

A pharmacist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is facing charges that he conspired with another person to sexually assault an infant and possessed and distributed numerous images depicting child sexual assault. Brandon Bair, 32, of Jamaica Plain, a doctor of pharmacology at Beth Israel, was arraigned Thursday in Boston Municipal Court, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office….

The chief nursing officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says the hospital is prepared for a second wave of the coronavirus – one that will look different than the first.

Health care workers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center say they’re prepared for a second wave of the coronavirus — one that will look different than the first. “We are certainly way more prepared than we were the first time around when we talked about it coming in like a tidal wave,” chief nursing officer Marsha Maurer told NBC10 Boston….

A COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Boston by Johnson & Johnson and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is moving to the third and final phase of trials.

For new moms struggling with breastfeeding, the coronavirus pandemic has made getting help difficult.

Have you found yourself washing your hands less often and not socially distancing among other recommendations? You may have “quarantine fatigue.” A psychiatrist from Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center explains the science behind the fatigue and what we can do to fight it.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and Gov. Charlie Baker will visit the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Friday for a round-table discussion on reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The federal government’s push to have a COVID-19 vaccine ready next year involves “pulling the inefficiency out” of drug development timelines, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during a visit to Boston on Friday. Azar joined Gov. Charlie Baker to tour operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Baker said work toward a vaccine that Beth...

Hospital lab technicians normally work quietly behind the scenes, but that has changed with COVID-19.

A new study by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston shows there is a major drop in the amount of people going to the emergency room for heart attacks and strokes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Health experts fear that people may be dying at their homes due to those conditions.

The promising new study at Beth Israel Deaconess shows that people who recover from the coronavirus may be protected from getting it again.

If you’ve recovered from COVID-19, are you immune from getting it again? New research on monkeys from a Boston hospital suggests you may.

Researchers at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that COVID-19 antibodies did provide protection against a second infection of the disease in lab tests on monkeys.