Health & Medicine

Engineering students look for solutions to a public-health crisis

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Visiting Columbia's family-friendly Brain Expo 

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

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

Columbia scientists have done something that until now only snake-oil salesmen claimed was possible

Manmeet Kaur and Prabhjot Singh are building a community-health network in East Harlem