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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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Tow Gift Creates New Post in Motor Neuron Disorders

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Prenatal Air

Researchers have found that when pregnant women are exposed to high levels of air pollution, their unborn babies are at risk for cognitive problems 

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Preparing for the Unthinkable

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a grant to develop radiation-screening tools 

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New Down Syndrome Test is Safe, Spots Trouble Early

Columbia physicians are rolling out a screening program that identifies high-risk patients with a blood test and ultrasound

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Katrina, Rita, and the Failure of Imagination

Irwin Redlener on why we still lack the capacity to imagine the impacts of catastrophic scenarios 

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Healthy Gums for a Healthy Heart

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Artery-Clearing Procedure Comes Up Short

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Earth Institute Targets Safe Drinking Water

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Scents and Sensibility

Richard Axel ’67CC followed his nose to the mysteries of smell and cracked the two great problems of olfaction

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Clinton the Lionhearted

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Heart Transplant

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Beyond Typhoid Mary

The origins of public health at Columbia and in the city

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