Health care

Delta Electronics Professor of Computer Science Regina Barzilay (left) gives a tutorial on the fundamentals of machine learning.

Applying machine learning to challenges in the pharmaceutical industry

MIT researchers and industry form new consortium to aid the drug discovery process.

May 17, 2018

Jose Gomez-Marquez, co-director of MIT’s Little Devices Lab, holds a sheet of paper diagnostic blocks, which can be easily printed and then combined in various ways to create customized diagnostic devices.

Plug-and-play diagnostic devices

Modular blocks could enable labs around the world to cheaply and easily build their own diagnostics.

May 16, 2018

New hours for MIT Medical’s Urgent Care Service

May 7, 2018

At the MIT Policy Hackathon, interdisciplinary teams worked together to find policy solutions to real societal challenges.

Using data science to improve public policy

MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.

April 23, 2018

Speakers included (l-r) Jay Bradner, president of the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research; Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute Professor; Andrew Plump, chief medical and scientific officer of Takeda; summit organizers and faculty members Regina Barzilay and Dina Katabi from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield; and Robert Califf, ...

Pioneering digital collaborations

MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.

April 10, 2018

Claire Traweek, Sam Kim, Jessy Lin, Neil Gohklay, and Juliet Wanyiri pose with two of their mentors after winning second place in the migrants and refugees category as part of the Vatican's first-ever hackathon.

A low-tech solution for high-impact health care

An interdisciplinary team of MIT students develops a solution to improve medical care for refugees as part of the Vatican’s first-ever hackathon.

March 22, 2018

A team of researchers led by an MIT economist has found that medical expenses account for roughly 4 percent of bankruptcy filings among nonelderly adults in the U.S.

How often do medical problems lead to bankruptcy?

Poor health is a less common cause of bankruptcy than commonly thought, but it brings other economic woes, study finds.

March 21, 2018

Eight teams pitched novel health care inventions at the annual MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition, held as part of the 16th annual Cour. The team, Theraoptix, took home the $25,000 grand prize, sponsored by health services firm Optum, for contact lenses that deliver medications directly to the eye over days or weeks.

Contact lenses that deliver drugs directly to the eye win health care prize

Eight teams pitched novel inventions at MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize competition.

March 9, 2018

A new study co-authored by a professor at MIT shows the long-term financial hurt of a medical event serious enough to cause hospitalization is significant even for the insured.

Ouch: Study reveals financial pain after hospitalization

Serious medical problems reduce earnings, hurt employment, and increase debt.

February 20, 2018

Butterfly Network, a startup co-founded by MIT alumnus Nevada Sanchez ’10, SM ’11, has developed a low-cost, handheld scanner that generates clinical-quality ultrasounds on a smartphone. Ultrasounds are uploaded to the cloud, where any expert with permission can give second opinions or help analyze images.

Giving everyone a window into the human body

Startup’s low-cost, portable scanner generates clinical-quality ultrasounds on a smartphone.

February 6, 2018

Professor Alex Slocum (right) works with students Alban Cobi and Steven Link, who are developing an adjustable phantom for radiotherapy validation.

Just what the doctor ordered

Class brings together MIT students and clinicians from local hospitals to design medical devices that address real-world health needs.

February 5, 2018

Graduate student James Hermus demonstrates a production robot based on the original MIT-MANUS design in the Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation. The robot, which helps stroke victims recover and regain mobility, represents one of the many ways MIT's mechanical engineering researchers are working to improve health care.

Understanding and treating disease

Mechanical engineering researchers are developing new and innovative ways to improve health care.

February 2, 2018

Five cancer researchers make up the MIT Center for Precision Cancer Medicine’s founding faculty. Left to right: Angela Koehler, Michael Hemann, Michael Yaffe (director), Forest White, and Matthew Vander Heiden.

Fine-tuning cancer medicine

New cancer research initiative eyes individualized treatment for patients.

February 1, 2018

George Church gave the first lecture in the Department of Biology’s four-part IAP seminar series, Biology at Transformative Frontiers.

Reading and writing DNA

Department of Biology kicks off IAP seminar series with a lecture by synthetic-biology visionary George Church.

January 31, 2018

Senior Anjali Misra, who is majoring in brain and cognitive sciences and minoring in music, is originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Making preventive medicine more accessible

MIT senior Anjali Misra is drawn to health care problems that don’t have easy answers.

January 17, 2018

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