Health care

MIT student inventor Nikolai Begg receives Lemelson-MIT student prize$30,000 Lemelson-MIT collegiate student prizes awarded to inventive students at three leading universities

How the brain loses and regains consciousnessStudy reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients.

Research update: Chemists find help from nature in fighting cancerStudy of several dozen compounds based on a fungal chemical shows potent anti-tumor activity.

New insight into how people choose insurance plansStudy: Consumers avoid high-deductible plans if they expect to reduce their use of medical care.

Sterilizing with the sunSolar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.

Ready to respondRegular drills prepare MIT Medical staffers to deal with emergencies.

MIT students create new medical devicesPrecision machine design class links doctors with students to find ways of meeting pressing medical needs for new technology.

A safer way to vaccinatePolymer film that gradually releases DNA coding for viral proteins could offer a better alternative to traditional vaccines.

Big medical dataAt the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.

Tiny tools help advance medical discoveriesMIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.

The health-insurance markets of the (very near) futurePolicymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.

Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnosesNew spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.

Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and moreResearch could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.

Inspiration from a porcupine’s quillsUnderstanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.

Study: At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial riskEmpirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.

MIT Medical marks World Diabetes Day with community outreachProvides information to Institute community members on risk factors for the disease.

A different operating procedureMIT Sloan’s Katherine Kellogg goes inside hospitals to study medical practices.

MIT Medical sets out to increase breast cancer awarenessInteractive event in E25 atrium offers information, education.

Taking the sting out of medical tapeNew adhesive comes off quickly, sparing infants’ delicate skin from damage.

How Jonathan Gruber became ‘Mr. Mandate’An MIT economist’s path to the center of health-care policymaking in Washington.

3 Questions with a student leader: Chief EMT Annie DunhamMIT senior oversees a team of 50 EMTs

Too much information?MIT Sloan marketing professor Catherine Tucker analyzes the boundaries of privacy in a connected world.

Walk-in flu shot clinic this Friday

Sana AudioPulse wins Mobile Health Challenge

Why cutting-edge medical technology may not lead to exploding health care costsNew study finds growth of advanced imaging slowed amid financial, medical concerns.

Said and Done for June/July 2012Digest of MIT humanities, arts and social sciences