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Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

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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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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

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

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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