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Every year some twenty-four thousand expectant mothers in the US lose their babies in the final stages of pregnancy

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Geneticist Angela Christiano’s research not only offers hope to those suffering from hair loss, it could point the way to new cancer therapies

Columbia scientists have done something that until now only snake-oil salesmen claimed was possible

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A physician and medical ethicist argues that society has lost sight of the spiritual resources we need to confront our mortality

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The virus was said to be an indiscriminate killer. The numbers say otherwise

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A Columbia-based center deploys strategies learned from fighting HIV and Ebola

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Columbia nursing students and faculty nurse practitioners confront a new reality

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Top virus hunter W. Ian Lipkin develops a plan for a global disease-alert system

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Columbia staff and students get creative in combating a shortage of face masks

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A Columbia psychologist and anxiety expert explains the impulse to “panic buy,” and how to satisfy our need to feel in control

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Findings from Columbia researchers may open the door for new preventive treatments

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Members of Columbia’s vast Chinese alumni network recently donated PPE and cash

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In the span of less than a year, five students have administered naloxone to overdose victims

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Pioneering AIDS researcher David D. Ho joins fight against COVID-19

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Elaine Larson, a professor emerita of nursing research and epidemiology, breaks down a hygiene essential

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Science confirms we should do more yoga, lay off the carbs, and eat earlier in the day for better health