Health care

New algorithm could substantially speed up MRI scansFaster scans could reduce the time patients spend in the machine from 45 to 15 minutes.

Systems thinking conference highlights practical applications in healthcare, education, product development

'Hacking Medicine' holds inaugural conference to create health care solutionsTotal of $6,000 in prizes awarded to medical entrepreneurship projects

Building innovation in IndiaMIT-India conference explores nation’s challenges, opportunities

A heart of goldNew cardiac patch uses gold nanowires to enhance electrical signaling between cells, a promising step toward better treatment for heart-attack patients.

When it pays to spend on health careMIT study shows that spending more on emergency-room patients saves lives.

Medicaid’s impact, finally measuredUnique study shows the effects of health insurance program: More treatment and fewer financial shocks for the poor, more bills paid for hospitals and doctors.

Nurse care managers reach out to MIT Medical patients

Two MIT teams design winning solutions for New OrleansDUSP and architecture graduate students claim top prizes in the Chase Community Development Competition.

MIT’s Benefits Open Enrollment Top 10 ListWhat to do before Nov. 1

Flu shots on campus at an all-time high

Better health through social networkingResearch shows how the nature of your social network influences your health behavior.

NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disordersCollaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.

Deworming the worldHow MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Kristin Forbes is helping to improve school participation in developing countries for just pennies per child

Sanofi-aventis establishes strategic alliance with MIT’s Center for Biomedical InnovationAlliance formed to advance cutting-edge research and foster collaboration between academia and industry

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers provide support to the U.S. Haiti relief effort

Online chats address questions about community care proposal

Tackling cancer on a new frontNew program at MIT’s Koch Institute targets the growing cancer problem in India.

BP Agrawal wins $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for SustainabilityHonored for technology that improves access to clean water, health care and business development in rural India

3 Questions: David Jones on heart problemsPhysician and historian of medicine explains why bypass surgery is popular even though it fails to help many patients.

In the World: Better wound treatment for allA streamlined version of 'negative-pressure' wound therapy is put to the test in Haiti — and could have 'enormous potential' across the developing world.

In Profile: Alex SlocumTeaching and tinkering, and teaching how to tinker, are the driving forces for longtime MIT mechanical engineer

Second opinion? Diagnosing doctorsAll physicians can save lives. But great ones tend to save time and money, too, an MIT economist finds.

‘All or nothing’MIT experts on the future of health-care reform: Congress should still think big