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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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Big Guys, Tender Hearts

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

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Don't Drink the Water

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

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Meet the Girl with the NUP214-ABL1 Gene

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

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The Ultimate Venom Database

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

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Take Out the Trash: A Strategy to Subdue Alzheimer's

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

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With New Diagnostic Test, Viruses Have Nowhere to Hide

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

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Can Computers Predict who Develops Mental Illness?

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

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Picturing Alzheimer's

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

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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

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Biking and Breathing

Is cycling in the city as healthy as people think?

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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

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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

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