Health care

Tissue engineering: Growing new organs, and moreResearch could lead to better ways to heal injuries and develop new drugs.

Inspiration from a porcupine’s quillsUnderstanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.

Study: At most a third of us show a consistent approach to financial riskEmpirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.

MIT Medical marks World Diabetes Day with community outreachProvides information to Institute community members on risk factors for the disease.

A different operating procedureMIT Sloan’s Katherine Kellogg goes inside hospitals to study medical practices.

MIT Medical sets out to increase breast cancer awarenessInteractive event in E25 atrium offers information, education.

Taking the sting out of medical tapeNew adhesive comes off quickly, sparing infants’ delicate skin from damage.

How Jonathan Gruber became ‘Mr. Mandate’An MIT economist’s path to the center of health-care policymaking in Washington.

3 Questions with a student leader: Chief EMT Annie DunhamMIT senior oversees a team of 50 EMTs

Too much information?MIT Sloan marketing professor Catherine Tucker analyzes the boundaries of privacy in a connected world.

Walk-in flu shot clinic this Friday

Sana AudioPulse wins Mobile Health Challenge

Why cutting-edge medical technology may not lead to exploding health care costsNew study finds growth of advanced imaging slowed amid financial, medical concerns.

Said and Done for June/July 2012Digest of MIT humanities, arts and social sciences

3 Questions: Andrea Campbell interprets the Supreme Court’s health care decisionA political scientist whose work was cited in one justice’s opinion weighs in on the ruling and its implications.

Student teams tackle Third World health care issuesLGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects

Sharper ultrasound images could improve diagnosticsNew system developed at MIT allows precise measurements and tracking of disease progression.

In the World: MIT-designed cooler preserves tuberculosis drugs, records dosesA simple cooler could help patients battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.

Mindfulness pioneer, alumnus Kabat-Zinn addresses MIT Medical cliniciansTalk examines essential concepts of mindfulness and awareness as applied to medicine

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needlesJet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.

CloudTop takes top $100K competition prizeA record 215 teams competed in this year’s business plan competition.

Andrea Campbell: Public opinion and policy viewed through an historical lensProfessor studies taxation, Social Security, health insurance and more.

Gauging seizures’ severitySimple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care.

Their own devicesMIT’s Medical Electronic Device Realization Center aims to connect microelectronics with new health‑care tools.

Haibo Wang, SDM ’12: Systems thinking makes surgeries safer

How to stop the fluEngineering-systems researchers identify proven strategies to prevent influenza from spreading through a household.