Finding 911 callers instantly
Mobile app automatically sends a caller’s location and medical data to dispatch centers.
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
PhD student Mariana Matus studies human waste to understand individual and community health.
Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Tweaks to the R&D pipeline could create new drugs and greater social benefit.
How do you hack health care?
With MIT Hacking Medicine, brilliant minds converge at MIT to contribute to design thinking for health care.
3 Questions: Carlo Ratti on big data and health predictions
MIT researcher discusses a new study on correlations among medical problems.
Major step for implantable drug-delivery device
MIT spinout signs deal to commercialize microchips that release therapeutics inside the body.
Medical anthropology
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.
Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria
Engineered particles are capable of producing toxins that are deadly to targeted bacteria.
D-Lab and Tata Center team wins $100K Vodafone award for mobile stethoscope
Rich Fletcher and Daniel Chamberlain will use their winnings to field-test a low-cost mobile device to diagnose pulmonary disease in rural India.
Researchers identify new target for anti-malaria drugs
Manipulating the permeability of a type of vacuole could help defeat malarial parasites.
MIT research showcased at Singapore’s first tech carnival
Robotic stingrays, driverless golf carts, and a cancer-detection device were on display.
