Avoiding mouse traps, killer keyboards, and other workstations hazards
Shortly after starting to use a new workstation for a school project, MIT student Lindsay Price, an aeronautical and astronautical engineering major, noticed that her hands felt a bit strange.
For Rachel Silver, associate director of major gifts in the Office of Alumni & Corporate Relations at MIT's Sloan School, it started with some neck and shoulder pain while typing on her laptop. Initially, she says, "It was at a time when I was traveling
Medicine and dentistry: working together for better health
From his years as clinical director for a network of dental treatment centers for individuals with disabilities, to the founding of an innovative program to provide oral health care to New Hampshire's poorest citizens, to his current work here at MIT Medical, Dental Service chief Jay Robert Afrow, D.M.D., M.H.A., has spent his professional life attempting to bridge what he calls an "artificial disconnect" between the field of dentistry and other areas of health care and medical practice. "We are constantly learning about new connections between oral and systemic health," Afrow notes. "And good oral health
