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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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Portable Diagnostic Tool Saving Rural Lives

The device requires just a drop of blood from a finger prick and reveals its diagnosis in fifteen minutes

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The Long Shot

If scientists expect to cure cancer they need to take bigger risks, says Columbia biochemist Brent Stockwell

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The Power of Forgetting

A study demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way our brains work

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Dentists Join Fight Against Diabetes

Researchers at the College of Dental Medicine have found that dentists can play a significant role in fighting a major public-health crisis

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A Step Toward Stem-Cell Therapy

Researchers have discovered a new way to create embryonic stem cells that contain a sick person’s unique DNA

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New Pathways for Treating Alzheimer’s

A study has uncovered alternative causes of the disease

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Beauty and Brains

A new book by Carl Schoonover '11GSAS explores how philosophers and neuroscientists have represented that most mysterious of human workings

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Grouped Therapy

Albert Ellis’s unruly papers

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Health & Medicine

Grave Decisions

Columbia psychologist Sheena Iyengar applies her expertise in human decision making to the most difficult question of all

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Health & Medicine

New Gel Reduces Women’s Risk of HIV

Women soon may be able to better protect themselves using a gel created by epidemiology professors Salim S. Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim

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Surveyors on the New Silk Road

Columbia social workers are pulling back the curtain on AIDS in Central Asia, where the epidemic is spreading faster than anywhere else in the world

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Wired for Trauma

Epidemiologist Sandro Galea discovers that altered genes may trigger post-traumatic stress

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