Medicine

A new approach to bladder-disease treatmentImplanted device can release slow, steady dose of medicine over extended period, removing the need for repeated procedures.

Roger Kamm elected to the Institute of MedicineOne of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine

An easier way to synthesize new drug candidatesMIT chemists’ answer to long-standing problem could have a big impact on pharmaceutical business.

David Jones receives 2010 Donald O'Hara Faculty Prize
 for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Medical School



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

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.

Building peace between border zones, one diagnosis at a timeMoca Lab project wins 2010 Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship

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

Medical entrepreneurship, from the bottom upMIT students aim to bring affordable health care to India’s masses.

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccineThe 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.