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Health & Medicine

Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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Scientists Reveal Malaria’s Method of Attack

A major new discovery by Columbia scientists is raising hopes that more-effective drugs could be developed

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Health & Medicine

The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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Health & Medicine

Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Health & Medicine

A Shrink Walks into a Gay Tiki Bar…

How Columbia psychiatry professor Robert Spitzer got homosexuality removed from the DSM’s list of mental disorders 

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Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

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Health & Medicine

A New Immunotherapy Breakthrough for Solid Tumors

Scientists led by Michel Sadelain have successfully treated cancerous growths of the kidney, pancreas, and ovaries in mice

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What a Decades-long Study of Arsenic Poisoning Can Tell Us About Human Health

Columbia researchers have spent over twenty-five years investigating the impacts of contaminated aquifers in Bangladesh 

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Health & Medicine

What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

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Health & Medicine

Cancer Screening Rules Are Changing. Are You Up to Date?

Columbia doctors say the right testing plan still depends on your personal risks and medical history

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Health & Medicine

Clearing the Path to Parenthood

Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?

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Health & Medicine

20 Years of Modeling the Brain

At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior

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ALS May Be an Autoimmune Disorder, and Other New Discoveries

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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