Tackling cancer on a new front
New program at MIT’s Koch Institute targets the growing cancer problem in India.
BP Agrawal wins $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Honored for technology that improves access to clean water, health care and business development in rural India
3 Questions: David Jones on heart problems
Physician and historian of medicine explains why bypass surgery is popular even though it fails to help many patients.
In the World: Better wound treatment for all
A streamlined version of 'negative-pressure' wound therapy is put to the test in Haiti — and could have 'enormous potential' across the developing world.
In Profile: Alex Slocum
Teaching and tinkering, and teaching how to tinker, are the driving forces for longtime MIT mechanical engineer
Second opinion? Diagnosing doctors
All physicians can save lives. But great ones tend to save time and money, too, an MIT economist finds.
