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Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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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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