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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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How COVID-19 Could Reveal the Secrets of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Columbia scientists say the pandemic may offer valuable insights

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Surprise! Your Sweet Tooth is Really in Your Gut

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

Columbia epidemiologist Simon Anthony inspects a vampire bat in the Brazilian rainforest
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Why Our Planet is a Breeding Ground for Emerging Diseases

Experts say habitat destruction and climate change are factors

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Understanding the Three Types of Loneliness

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

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How COVID-19 Exposed the Ugliness of Health Injustice

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

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The Unique Challenges of Fighting COVID-19 in Africa

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

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Future Nurses on Call

Columbia nursing students and faculty nurse practitioners confront a new reality

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How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts

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

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Engineers ...and Librarians! to the Rescue

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

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Staying Sane in a Pandemic-Stricken World

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

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Health & Medicine

Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins Exposed in New Detail

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

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Columbia Alumni Associations in Asia Offer Aid and Support

Members of Columbia’s vast Chinese alumni network recently donated PPE and cash

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