Health & Medicine

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

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

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

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

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

Columbia researchers have created the first forecasting system for influenza outbreaks