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Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

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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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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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Health & Medicine

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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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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