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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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Skeleton Key

Columbia scientists discover an entirely new function of the skeleton

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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?

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Rash Judgment?

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

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Are You Sure It Doesn't Hurt?

Columbia researchers study the placebo effect

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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

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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

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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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In the Genetic Bull's-Eye

A researcher says that the medical profession must address the “serious scientific and social concerns” raised by genetic research that targets racial and ethnic groups

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Infection Detection

Researchers have discovered a key mechanism within the deadly Marburg virus that enables it to break down the body's immune system

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Daydreamer

A Business School alumnus advocates for naps

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Cellbound

Despite restrictions limiting research, Columbia scientists are unlocking the potential of human stem cells

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Minding the Brain

Neurobiologist Eric Kandel searches for memory, cell by cell

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