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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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Brain Games: How the Mind Performs Under Pressure

What neuroscience and psychology can tell us about baseball – and ourselves

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What Causes Autism? Study of 100,000 Kids Reveals New Clues

Psychiatrist and epidemiologist Mady Hornig discusses the possible roots of this mysterious condition

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What Do Memories Look Like?

Columbia neuroscientists have figured out how to visually map memory formation

 

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Shaping the Future of Public Health

At 100, Columbia’s Mailman School prepares to address some major societal challenges

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The Mental Weight of COVID-19

Columbia psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic

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Smog’s Threat to the Brain

Our brains may be even more vulnerable to air pollution than previously thought

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The Complex Legacies of Lyme Disease

A new clinic at Columbia specializes in treating patients with long-haul symptoms

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Going Grey? Relax. Those Silver Strands Could Disappear

The greying process is kickstarted by stress hormones — and it may even be reversible

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Health & Medicine

A New Way of Looking at Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote the book on cancer. Can he transform the way it’s treated?

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Health & Medicine

The Nurse Practitioner Who Wants to Bring Concierge Health Care to All

Rakiyah Jones ’19NRS is expanding access one patient at a time

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A Columbia Startup Finds a Way to Clean Up

Kinnos, a biotech company, has a simple but effective new disinfection tool for the pandemic era and beyond

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“Get the Shot!” Urges Rap Star

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC is appearing in a new series of educational music videos launched by Hip Hop Public Health

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