Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support.

Using high-powered lasers, this new method could help biologists study the body’s immune responses and develop new medicines.

The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative will bring together researchers from across the Institute to deliver health care solutions at scale.

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.

The late-in-life health care option reduces patient costs, even as for-profit organizations expand in the sector.

The noninvasive screening procedure can reduce pregnancy risks and lower costs at the same time, but only when targeted effectively.

Evacuating is expensive, and for some people the risks of leaving can seem greater than staying despite the storm.

Weather disasters, particularly floods, can create health threats that linger for months, from infected cuts to mold growth to mental stress.

Weather disasters such as floods create health threats that can linger for months, from infected cuts to mold growth to mental stress.

New statistical models based on physiological data from more than 100 surgeries provide objective, accurate measures of the body’s subconscious perception of pain.