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How Do We Change the Way We Eat?
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How Do We Change the Way We Eat?

Our industrialized food system is harming our health and warming the planet. Columbia experts weigh in on solutions

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What Causes Autism? Study of 100,000 Kids Reveals New Clues
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What Causes Autism? Study of 100,000 Kids Reveals New Clues

Psychiatrist and epidemiologist Mady Hornig discusses the possible roots of this mysterious condition

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

The Single Best Way to Ease Inflammation and Boost Your Immune Health
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The Single Best Way to Ease Inflammation and Boost Your Immune Health

Columbia gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella on the foods everyone should be eating — and the ones to avoid

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Closing in on Breast Cancer
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Closing in on Breast Cancer

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

Eye, Robot
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Eye, Robot

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

Testy Docs
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Testy Docs

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

Glow Mouse
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Glow Mouse

A new imaging technique from biomedical engineering professor Elizabeth Hillman

Buzz Kill
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Buzz Kill

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

Skeleton Key
Four-color mezzotint skeleton by anatomy illustrator Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty, from the mid-18th century
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Skeleton Key

Columbia scientists discover an entirely new function of the skeleton

Once a Soldier
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Once a Soldier

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

Rash Judgment?
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Rash Judgment?

Brian Fallon '85PH, '85PS says the medical establishment underestimates the devastating effects of Lyme disease

Are You Sure It Doesn't Hurt?
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Are You Sure It Doesn't Hurt?

Columbia researchers study the placebo effect

Alcohol Abuse Rises on College Campuses
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Alcohol Abuse Rises on College Campuses

A study finds that U.S. college students are drinking with increasing intensity and facing serious consequences as evidenced by physical injuries

Katrina's Grim Legacy
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Katrina's Grim Legacy

A report finds that Mississippi children displaced by the disaster show signs of depression, anxiety, and behavioral problems

Untangling Minds
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Untangling Minds

Columbia researchers led by Richard Mayeux ’91PH discover another gene that's associated with Alzheimer’s

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