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Battle Creek Sanitarium
Battle Creek Sanitarium, founded 1866 as the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan, was John Harvey Kellogg's world-famous Adventist health resort; birthplace of corn flakes, later the Percy Jones Hospital and Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center.
Baylor University Medical Center
Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC), Dallas, Texas; founded 1903 as Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium; flagship of Baylor Scott & White Health; 900+ beds, Level 1 trauma, CMS 4-star, Magnet hospital.
BE_WITH trial
BE_WITH (NCT07204444), the BE WITH Project, a completed University of Florida partially nested randomized trial testing 8-week warm calls (BE and BE+ASIST conditions) for loneliness, depression, and suicide risk in 671 older adults.
Behavior change technique
A behavior change technique (BCT) is an observable, replicable "active ingredient" of an intervention designed to change behavior, such as self-monitoring, goal setting, or reinforcement.
Behavioral medicine
Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field, defined at Yale in 1977, that integrates behavioral and biomedical science for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of illness.
Behaviour change technique
A behavior change technique is an observable, replicable active ingredient of an intervention designed to change behavior, classified by the 2013 BCTTv1 taxonomy of 93 techniques in 16 clusters.
Beijing Shijitan Hospital
Beijing Shijitan Hospital (北京世纪坛医院), affiliated to Capital Medical University, is a Grade III-A general hospital in Haidian, Beijing. Founded 1915 as a railway hospital, renamed 2005; 1,100 beds; developed the SJT VTE risk model.
BEIP trial
The BEIP trial, or Bucharest Early Intervention Project, is the only randomized trial comparing foster care with institutional care for abandoned children, begun in Bucharest, Romania, around 2000.
Belaswitch study
Belaswitch (NCT05316038), also called the belatacept conversion study, is a prospective single-center cohort study at Grenoble Alpes University Hospital tracking metabolic and infectious complications in kidney transplant recipients switched from tacrolimus to belatacept, each patient as their own control.
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue Hospital (NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue), founded 1736 as a six-bed Almshouse infirmary, is America's oldest public hospital, a Manhattan Level I trauma center affiliated with NYU, serving about 520,000 outpatients yearly.
Ben D. Barker
Ben D. Barker, also known as Bennie Dale Barker, was an American dental education scholar and dean of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry from 1981 to 1989.
Bernard D. Goldstein
Bernard D. Goldstein is an American environmental toxicologist and public health physician, emeritus dean at the University of Pittsburgh and a former EPA research administrator.
BEST-CLI trial
BEST-CLI (NCT02060630), an NHLBI-funded international randomized open-label trial, compared surgical bypass with endovascular therapy in 1,830 chronic limb-threatening ischemia patients; bypass with adequate great saphenous vein reduced major adverse limb events or death (42.6% vs 57.4%).
BetaTACSFTD trial
BetaTACSFTD (NCT07505784) is a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled cross-over trial of single-session beta-frequency tACS (2.5 mA, 60 min) in frontotemporal dementia, led by Barbara Borroni at IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, with EEG and TMS outcomes.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, formed by 1996 merger of Beth Israel and New England Deaconess hospitals; 766 beds, Beth Israel Lahey Health founding hospital, Dana-Farber partner from 2028.
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Beth Israel Lahey Health is a nonprofit health care system headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2019 by the merger of Lahey Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Beth Israel Medical Center
Beth Israel Medical Center, later Mount Sinai Beth Israel, was a New York City hospital founded in 1889 for Lower East Side Jewish immigrants, renamed in 1965, merged into Mount Sinai Health System in 2013, and closed April 9, 2025.
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as Bedlam, founded 1247 in Bishopsgate, London, is the world's oldest psychiatric institution, now an NHS hospital in Beckenham run by South London and Maudsley Trust.
Betsy L. Humphreys
Betsy L. Humphreys is an American medical librarian who spent 44 years at the National Library of Medicine, serving as its acting director from 2015 to 2016.
BFY trial
Baby's First Years (BFY) trial, NCT03593356, a US randomized controlled trial giving 1,000 low-income mothers $333 or $20 monthly unconditional cash gifts; found infant EEG changes at age 1 but null development outcomes at age 4.
Bias (concept)
Bias (concept): in epidemiology and research, systematic deviation of results or inferences from the truth, also called systematic error, epidemiologic bias; three main types: selection, information, confounding.
Bidirectional Mendelian randomization
Bidirectional Mendelian randomization is a genetic epidemiology design that uses genetic variants as instruments to test causal effects of two traits on each other, judging direction.
BIO trial
BIO trial (NCT03412162), also the Biology, Identity, and Opportunity Study: a Northwestern University randomized trial testing the 8-week Identity Project ethnic-racial identity intervention in 300 high school freshmen, measuring cortisol, sleep, cognition, and academic outcomes.
BioCog study
BioCog (Biomarker Development for Postoperative Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly) is an EU FP7 prospective cohort study at Charité Berlin and Utrecht identifying biomarkers for postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction in older surgical patients; distinct from a digital cognitive test of the same name.
Biological hazard
Biological hazard (biohazard): organic-origin hazards, pathogens, toxins, vectors, pests, affecting humans, animals, plants; foodborne illness sickens 866 million yearly; controlled via biosafety levels and risk assessment.
Biological Monitoring
Biological monitoring, also called biomonitoring, is the measurement of toxins, pollutants, or their effects in the bodies of living organisms, typically by analyzing blood, urine, and saliva, complementing environmental monitoring.
Biomedical waste
Biomedical waste, also called medical waste or clinical waste, is waste from health-care activities such as used needles, blood-contaminated dressings, body parts, pharmaceuticals, and radioactive materials; about 15% is hazardous.
BioTrack trial
BioTrack (NCT03104387) is a Danish controlled crossover trial in which 29 healthy volunteers rode diesel versus electric trains 6 hours daily for three days, showing reduced lung function, increased PBMC DNA strand breaks, and altered heart rate variability.
Bixonimania
Bixonimania is a fictitious eye disease invented in 2024 by Almira Osmanovic Thunström of the University of Gothenburg to test AI; chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity repeated it as real, and a Cureus paper citing it was retracted.
Black Death
Black Death: the 1346–1353 bubonic plague pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis, deadliest in recorded history, killing up to half of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa; origin traced by ancient DNA to Kyrgyzstan (Kara-Djigach), distinct from later second-pandemic waves and modern plague.