Boston Children's Hospital
The design world’s eyes are on organs-on-chips
Organs-on-chips on display in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. (Photo: Wyss Institute at Harvard University)
By Tom Ulrich
Embracing the future of pediatric quality measurement
CareAline: A mother’s road to SXSW
New Human Neuron Core to analyze ‘disease in a dish’
SXSW Interactive 2015: Our future selves, a maturing health tech industry and why failing is productive
By Judy Wang
How Skype and FaceTime inspired remote care for home-ventilated patients
From a series on researchers and innovators at Boston Children’s Hospital. At left, David Casavant demos TeleCAPE at a Boston Children’s Hospital Innovators Showcase.
Yes, poor vaccination rates are fueling the 2015 measles outbreak
By Tom Ulrich
The emerging genetic mosaic of lymphatic and vascular malformations
By Tom Ulrich
Our genes can mutate at any point in our lives. In rare cases, a mutation randomly occurs in a single cell of an embryo and gets carried forward only in the descendants of that particular cell, leaving its mark in some tissues, but not in others. This pattern of mutation, called somatic mosaicsm, can have complicated consequences down the road.
Melanopsin, lighting and you
Back in the day, the 1980s to be specific, there was a brief fad around amber-on-black computer screens (as opposed to green-on-black or white-on-black) for supposed ergonomic reasons. My computer had one, along with its 5 ¼” floppy drives (remember those?).
Can the collaborative economy work in health care?
Airbnb and Uber have disrupted the hotel and taxi industries by finding and tapping unused assets. What’s in store for medicine?
By David Altman