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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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Hair-Regeneration Method the First to Grow New Follicles

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

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The Wages of Health

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

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Going Viral, One by One by One by One ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques may soon make it feasible for scientists to catalog all the viruses in our mammalian compatriots

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Neuroscientists Discover a Major Cause of Age-Related Memory Loss

There's strong evidence that forgetfulness in old age may be reversible

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Mavens of Madness

Introducing a satirical, Yiddish alternative to the "bible of psychiatry"

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Looking for the Telltale Gene

A new genetic test allows parents to peer into their unborn children's medical future. Are we ready for this knowledge?

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Cloudy, with a Chance of Flu

Columbia researchers have created the first forecasting system for influenza outbreaks 

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Hope for New Life in Diabetic Pancreas Cells

A new study suggests that type 2 disease progresses in a different way than previously thought

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Genetic Fusion Linked to Brain Cancer

Columbia researchers uncover the cause of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer

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Hearts & Bones

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Can her laboratory-grown body parts really work?

Karen Duff and fellow Columbia scientists Li Liu and Scott Small have shown how tau tangles spread throughout the Alzheimer's brain.
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Tracking Down the Alzheimer’s Executioner

A new discovery brings scientists closer to understanding how the disease spreads

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Serving Family Time

Columbia researchers study the impacts of an alternative-to-incarceration program for single mothers

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