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Sarah Mahoney

Using dynamics from gaming to improve people’s health

by Sarah Mahoney on December 6, 2011

This past October I attended the Health 2.0 conference, where there was a lot of discussion on the use of niche social networking sites to empower and inform patients, caregivers and families. There is a lot of debate about these communities, but one thing that’s not debatable is their popularity. MedHelp, for example, has over [...]

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Serendipity in science: Collaborating to build robotic clothing for brain-damaged children

by Sarah Mahoney on November 21, 2011

Countless scientific epiphanies never leave the bench – unless there’s the kind of serendipitous encounter that set Children’s Hospital Boston psychologist Gene Goldfield on a path he never expected to follow. One in eight babies are born prematurely, putting them at greater risk for cerebral palsy, an inability to fully control their muscles. Goldfield saw [...]

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