Health & Medicine

What does a physician or therapist do when she is caring for two patients whose rights conflict?

Scientists have found a way to reverse osteoporosis in mice

Columbia scientists figure out how to multiply tiny hearts

New diseases seem to have cropped up with frightening regularity. Are we becoming more vulnerable to strange illnesses?

Columbia scientists shed light on a mystery involving cell reproduction

Oncologists demonstrate how a mutated gene associated with breast cancer contributes to runaway cell growth

An engineering professor has developed small, snakelike robots to help surgeons handle tools in tight quarters

How can researchers test the effectiveness of improvements that surgeons make to procedures? 

A new imaging technique from biomedical engineering professor Elizabeth Hillman

Columbia researchers say they've identified another reason for honeybee decline

Columbia scientists discover an entirely new function of the skeleton

Children have done the killing in Africa's and Asia's dirtiest wars. What are their chances once the fighting stops?