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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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Seeing the Light, Again

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Battling Obesity

Mary Bassett helps New Yorkers make healthy choices

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The Art of Healing

Listening to patients’ stories develops empathy

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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

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