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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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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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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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How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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In Sub-Saharan Africa, Turning the Tide Against AIDS

Scientists report that the annual rates of new HIV infections in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have fallen

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Weighty Matters

A Q&A with Columbia medical professor Michael Rosenbaum on obesity research

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Data Mining Reveals Risky Drug Combos

Two of the most commonly prescribed medications can cause cardiac arrest if combined

Andrew Juhl and Greg O'Mullan
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Some Credence to Clear-Water Revival

The Hudson River is the cleanest it's been since 1984

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Study: “Wheat Sensitivity” is Real

(It may affect more than just celiac sufferers)

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Your Beautiful Brain

Dispatches from the frontier of neuroscience

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Cambodia’s Orphanages are Packed — but not with Orphans

Columbia Public Health researchers uncover a disturbing finding

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A Mystery of the Infant Brain, Revealed

A new finding could give insight into autism and ADHD

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Signs of Life

Two alumni entrepreneurs are helping to reduce infant mortality rates in Uganda

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To Create a Memory, Fresh Cells Required

The majority of our brain cells have to last an entire lifetime

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Gene-Editing Technology Could Treat Blindness

A new technique could revolutionize the treatment of some inheritable diseases.

Salt
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The Great Salt Debate that Wasn't

Are warnings about the sodium content of the modern American diet greatly exaggerated?

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