On Oct. 22-23, MIT faculty and industry leaders discussed the need for a systems-based approach to tackle complex challenges such as health care, energy, and the environment at the 2009 MIT conference on systems thinking for contemporary challenges.
The MIT economist blames inadequate incentives for the failure to develop a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS. He argues governments should help industry create an HIV vaccine by sharing risk.
Study suggests that vaccinating many more people could slow the seasonal influenza virus's ability to evade vaccines.
Drugs that inhibit the protein, which normally helps defend cells from infection, could target tumors in certain lung cancer patients.
The government regulates how food is produced. MIT anthropologist Heather Paxson studies the rebellious cheese-makers who reluctantly adhere to those rules.
A student-only seasonal flu clinic will be held as planned on Oct. 15
No health risk in waiting a few weeks for a shot, says MIT Medical’s chief of medicine
A 2-minute video in which Dr. Howard Heller, chief of medicine at MIT Medical, talks about the precautions you should take to avoid the H1N1 flu, and what to do if you think you have the flu.
Led by electrical engineering professor John Wyatt, team develops retinal implant that could help restore useful level of vision to certain groups of blind people
