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How Do We Change the Way We Eat?
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Health & Medicine

How Do We Change the Way We Eat?

Our industrialized food system is harming our health and warming the planet. Columbia experts weigh in on solutions

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What Causes Autism? Study of 100,000 Kids Reveals New Clues
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What Causes Autism? Study of 100,000 Kids Reveals New Clues

Psychiatrist and epidemiologist Mady Hornig discusses the possible roots of this mysterious condition

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

The Single Best Way to Ease Inflammation and Boost Your Immune Health
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The Single Best Way to Ease Inflammation and Boost Your Immune Health

Columbia gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella on the foods everyone should be eating — and the ones to avoid

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Picturing Alzheimer's
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Picturing Alzheimer's

Inside Arts & Minds, a nonprofit that provides art classes for dementia patients

How Your Birth Month Influences Your Health
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How Your Birth Month Influences Your Health

The month you were born helps determine your risk for asthma, ADHD, heart disease, and many other common medical problems

Biking and Breathing
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Biking and Breathing

Is cycling in the city as healthy as people think?

Cancer Can be Catching
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Cancer Can be Catching

Leukemia is spreading among soft-shell clams through seawater, marking only the third instance that scientists have ever found of cancer cells migrating between organisms

Joint Venture
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Joint Venture

Tissue engineers at CUMC are bending the idea of what's possible — by growing new cartilage and bone inside the body

New Hope for Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Mady Hornig
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New Hope for Those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The illness, once dismissed as the “yuppie flu,” has long frustrated scientists seeking to explain its etiology

The Smile Sessions
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The Smile Sessions

Andrea Smith '05DM is the clinical director of the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic

Necessity’s Inventions: Design Challenge Takes Aim at Ebola
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Necessity’s Inventions: Design Challenge Takes Aim at Ebola

Engineering students look for solutions to a public-health crisis

The Ebola Web
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The Ebola Web

As the Ebola virus ravages West Africa, Columbians race to stop an epidemic

Study of Ashkenazi Jews Opens Genomic Window
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Study of Ashkenazi Jews Opens Genomic Window

Columbia researchers have identified many previously unknown mutations common among the isolated group

Researchers Find Synaptic Link to Autism
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Researchers Find Synaptic Link to Autism

Neurobiologists have made a discovery that may help explain why people with autism are prone to epilepsy and often oversensitive to noise and social experiences

Wise Blood
Elizabeth Hillman
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Wise Blood

Columbia researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding how blood flow is regulated in the brain

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