Health & Medicine

8 ways Columbia scientists and clinicians are working to understand this complex and confounding disease

Columbia scientists say the pandemic may offer valuable insights

A new Columbia study reveals why artificial sweeteners won't satisfy your sugar cravings

Experts say habitat destruction and climate change are factors

Gerontologist Linda P. Fried discusses the unique mental stress of social isolation on the elderly

The virus was said to be an indiscriminate killer. The numbers say otherwise

A Columbia-based center deploys strategies learned from fighting HIV and Ebola

Columbia nursing students and faculty nurse practitioners confront a new reality

Top virus hunter W. Ian Lipkin develops a plan for a global disease-alert system

Columbia staff and students get creative in combating a shortage of face masks

A Columbia psychologist and anxiety expert explains the impulse to “panic buy,” and how to satisfy our need to feel in control

Findings from Columbia researchers may open the door for new preventive treatments