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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
Chris W. Kim
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
How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.
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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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A Major Victory in the Fight Against Diabetes
Just two weeks of an experimental drug stopped the disease in its tracks
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New Hope for Heart Failure Patients
A study shows that patients with heart failure can live longer and better lives with an implanted mechanical device
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Edmund Beecher Wilson: America's First Cell Biologist
The scientist set the stage for a revolution in modern genetics and inspired leadership of Columbia’s department of zoology
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Cournand & Richards and the Bellevue Hospital Cardiopulmonary Laboratory
Just about everything modern medicine knows about the heart and lungs was made possible by the work of Frédérick Cournand and Dickinson Richards