Health & Medicine

A new finding could give insight into autism and ADHD

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

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

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

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

Columbia cardiologists are collaborating with the NBA to identify athletes at risk for sudden cardiac death

A Q&A with historian and public-health expert David Rosner about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

A team of physicians and scientists working on a new precision-medicine initiative face their ultimate test

Columbia researchers created a database of the effects of different venoms on the human body

Researchers found that boosting the productivity of the brain's "garbage-disposal system" may treat diseases

Scientists have developed a diagnostic tool could speed up the detection and treatment of infectious diseases from common influenza to Dengue fever

An automated speech-analysis program predicted with 100 percent accuracy which of thirty-four teens and young adults would develop schizophrenia