Health & Medicine

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 

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

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

Is cycling in the city as healthy as people think?

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

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

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

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

Engineering students look for solutions to a public-health crisis