Health care

Nanotechnology could help fight diabetesInjectable nanogel can monitor blood-sugar levels and secrete insulin when needed.

How Medicaid affects adult healthStudy: Health insurance helps lower-income Americans avoid depression, diabetes, major financial shocks.

Inventors honored for bringing life-saving health solutions to the developing worldRebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden win $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.

Commerce’s call to actionIn MIT talk, head of U.S. Chamber of Commerce outlines business-oriented policy agenda.

Research advances therapy to protect against dengue virusMIT team presents a novel approach to developing a treatment using mutated antibodies.

Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targetsRagon Institute researchers develop a method to identify weak points in viral proteins that could be exploited for vaccine development.

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.