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MIT researchers have found that Medicaid recipients are 20 percent more likely to wait more than 20 minutes to begin a scheduled appointment, compared to privately insured patients.

Testing their patients

Medicaid patients wait longer to see doctors, study finds.

May 1, 2017

Multiply Labs founders (l-r) Joe Wilson, Alice Melocchi, Tiffany Kuo, and Fred Parietti have invented a 3-D pill printing technique that creates personalized dietary supplements.

Using supplements? Order a personalized pill

Seed funding from the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund helped Multiply Labs' founders launch their personalized dietary supplement startup.

May 1, 2017

WiGait uses wireless signals to continuously measure a person's walking speed, which may help predict cognitive and motor function decline, and even certain cardiac or pulmonary diseases.

Detecting walking speed with wireless signals

By measuring this emerging vital sign, CSAIL system could help monitor and diagnose health issues like cognitive decline and cardiac disease.

May 1, 2017

The NEWDIGS Design Lab on Gene and Oncology Therapies was held at the MIT Samberg Center April 11-13.

MIT NEWDIGS hosts design lab on new gene and oncology therapy financing models

Industry leaders, patient advocates, and policymakers collaborate to lower barriers to potentially curative treatments.

April 25, 2017

Engineers at MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small samples of blood. The technique, which relies on conventional blood draws, may provide patients with a less painful test for multiple myeloma.

Method may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies

Microfluidic device isolates plasma cells from blood rather than bone marrow.

April 4, 2017

In a March 31 talk at MIT, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders discussed his experiences as a presidential candidate and his thoughts about the political process.

Bern notice

In MIT speech, Bernie Sanders contends future of U.S. politics “must be” progressive.

April 3, 2017

J. Phillip Thompson, MIT associate professor of urban studies and planning, was instrumental in shaping a comprehensive approach to health in Brooklyn, New York.

3Q: J. Phillip Thompson on revitalizing Central Brooklyn

Advisor to $1.4 billion state plan sees health care as foundation for “Vital Brooklyn.”

March 30, 2017

MIT Media Lab spinout Cardiio has developed a mobile app that uses a smartphone camera to detect facial signs of a heart arrhythmia associated with strokes.

App screens for arrhythmia using smartphone camera

Startup develops app to detect irregular heartbeats that can cause strokes.

March 29, 2017

Letter regarding enhanced medical leave and hospitalization policies and procedures

March 17, 2017

Report announces enhancements to policies on student medical leave and hospitalization

Committee outlines strategies for building student trust in support systems, encouraging help-seeking, and providing coordinated, compassionate care.

March 17, 2017

Eight student teams pitched novel inventions at last night’s MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize pitch competition. Rendever earned the $25,000 grand prize for creating a virtual-reality platform that gives the elderly the chance to explore the world virtually. The platform also provides cognitive therapy and tracks movement data to aid in early diagnosis of dementia.

Virtual-reality system for the elderly wins health care prize

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

February 24, 2017

“[W]hen I came here for CPW [Campus Preview Weekend], I realized that these people were really passionate about what they were doing, and that they were doing really cool things. It’s nerdy, but it’s my kind of nerdy,” senior Hermoon Worku says.

Future physician-advocate

Senior Hermoon Worku is pursuing a career dedicated to surgery, advocacy, and teaching.

February 20, 2017

MIT Professor Regina Barzilay has struck up new research collaborations, drawn in MIT students, launched projects with local doctors, and begun empowering cancer treatment with the machine-learning insight that has already transformed many areas of modern life.

Putting data in the hands of doctors

Computer scientist Regina Barzilay empowers cancer treatment with machine learning.

February 16, 2017

A new study co-authored by MIT scholars shows regions of the U.S. where medical providers are most likely to offer tests and treatments, given populations with equivalent levels of underlying health. Areas with greater “diagnostic intensity,” as the researchers call it, are in red.

Measuring “diagnostic intensity”

New study maps U.S. regions where patients appear more ill than they are

February 15, 2017

How the U.S. can beat hepatitis C: Don’t buy the pills, buy the company

Pharma veteran and MIT visiting scientist Mark Trusheim advances a provocative solution to overcome treatment costs.

January 20, 2017

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