Health

Students take their LGO tools to African clinicsStudents in Global Health Delivery Lab course help deliver health care to resource-limited areas in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

A step closer to artificial liversResearchers identify compounds that help liver cells grow outside the body.

Evaluating a new way to open clogged arteriesComputational model offers insight into mechanisms of drug-coated balloons.

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.

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

Designing healthy citiesA joint initiative of SA+P's new Center for Advanced Urbanism and the American Institute of Architects

How to minimize the side effects of cancer treatmentMeasuring enzyme levels in patients may reveal healthy cells’ ability to survive chemotherapy.

Safety first, and freeMIT student Paige Finkelstein starts Project Helmet to distribute free bike helmets to MIT community.

Esther Duflo selected as a 2013 Dan David Prize laureateHonored for research to alleviate poverty through disease prevention

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.

Health and Fitness Club makes a comebackTwo MIT Sloan students resurrect the club with fitness classes, martial arts lessons and other activities.

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.

Possible role for Huntington’s gene discoveredMutant forms of the gene disrupt chemical modifications that control access to genes necessary for normal brain cell function.

Researchers reveal strategies for mercury reduction in time for negotiationsMIT, Harvard professors map future trends, reveal ways to reduce mercury levels on eve of final international meeting for mercury control.

How to stop leaks — the way blood doesHarnessing the principle that allows blood to clot, MIT researchers are working on new synthetic materials to plug holes.

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.

Professor Roger Kamm visualizes sneaky tumor cells with 3-D assayKamm is studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer-cell migration from one location in the body to another and the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths.

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

New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosisNanoparticles amplify tumor signals, making them much easier to detect in the urine.

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

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