Health & Medicine

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

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

In the span of less than a year, five students have administered naloxone to overdose victims

Pioneering AIDS researcher David D. Ho joins fight against COVID-19

Elaine Larson, a professor emerita of nursing research and epidemiology, breaks down a hygiene essential

Science confirms we should do more yoga, lay off the carbs, and eat earlier in the day for better health

Biomedical engineer Tal Danino finds both art and new cancer-fighting therapies in Earth's most abundant lifeforms

Leukemia specialist Azra Raza on why the medical field needs to focus more on early detection

A new study suggests that patients are missing out on viable organs