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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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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

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The Smile Sessions

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

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Necessity’s Inventions: Design Challenge Takes Aim at Ebola

Engineering students look for solutions to a public-health crisis

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The Ebola Web

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

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Study of Ashkenazi Jews Opens Genomic Window

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

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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

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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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Choices with Stories

George Estreich, author of The Shape of the Eye, spoke at the Heyman Center's event “Parenting, Narrative, and Our Genetic Futures"

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The Road to Kigutu

Deogratias Niyizonkiza barely escaped the genocidal war in Burundi in the 1990s. Years later, he returned to the small African nation with a big idea. Can he heal what remains?

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Visiting Columbia's family-friendly Brain Expo 

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Breaking Through

What will cannabis legalization mean for public health? Columbia researchers attempt to clear the air

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Gene Test Could Inform Prostate-Cancer Treatment

Physicians soon may be able to determine more reliably if a man’s prostate cancer requires quick attention

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