New insight into how people choose insurance plans
Study: Consumers avoid high-deductible plans if they expect to reduce their use of medical care.
Sterilizing with the sun
Solar concentrating system could replace fuel-powered or electric devices in remote villages.
MIT students create new medical devices
Precision machine design class links doctors with students to find ways of meeting pressing medical needs for new technology.
A safer way to vaccinate
Polymer film that gradually releases DNA coding for viral proteins could offer a better alternative to traditional vaccines.
Big medical data
At the intersection of medicine and computer science, researchers look for clinically useful correlations amid mountains of information.
Tiny tools help advance medical discoveries
MIT researchers are designing tools to analyze cells at the microscale.
The health-insurance markets of the (very near) future
Policymakers must address ‘tension’ between competition and ease of use.
Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnoses
New spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.
Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and more
Research could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.
Inspiration from a porcupine’s quills
Understanding 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 risk
Empirically 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 outreach
Provides information to Institute community members on risk factors for the disease.
A different operating procedure
MIT Sloan’s Katherine Kellogg goes inside hospitals to study medical practices.