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Health & Medicine

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

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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

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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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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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Health & Medicine

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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Health & Medicine

Psychiatrists to Study How College Students’ Lives are Shaped by COVID-19

The pandemic has turned everybody’s lives upside down, and students have made profound sacrifices

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Health & Medicine

New Program Will Research Brain Longevity

Introducing the the Sagol Brain Longevity Program at Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

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Health & Medicine

When Grief Won't End

For some bereaved adults, time does not heal. Columbia researchers are looking for answers

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Health & Medicine

The Lost Art of Dying Well

A physician and medical ethicist argues that society has lost sight of the spiritual resources we need to confront our mortality 

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Health & Medicine

What You Need to Know About COVID-19 Now

A daily spritz of nasal spray might protect us, and other updates from Columbia experts

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Health & Medicine

Genetic Study Reveals Causes of Many Stillbirths

Every year some twenty-four thousand expectant mothers in the US lose their babies in the final stages of pregnancy

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Health & Medicine

Changing Minds About Masks

A Columbia-led online PR campaign has reached more than one million people

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Health & Medicine

Wheat-Belly Blues are the Real Deal, Say Columbia Experts

A diagnostic test for gluten sensitivity could be on the horizon

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