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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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The Full Treatment

Wafaa El-Sadr reaches beyond medical protocol to shape treatment regimens in New York and Africa

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Cell Out

A Columbia scientist discovers a new way to make cancer cells destroy themselves

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Who Will Tell Amelia?

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

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Bone-building Solution

Scientists have found a way to reverse osteoporosis in mice

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Mending Hearts

Columbia scientists figure out how to multiply tiny hearts

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Disease Catchers

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

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Divisions of Labor

Columbia scientists shed light on a mystery involving cell reproduction

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Closing in on Breast Cancer

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

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Eye, Robot

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

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Testy Docs

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

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Glow Mouse

A new imaging technique from biomedical engineering professor Elizabeth Hillman

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Buzz Kill

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

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