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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.
Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users
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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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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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Armed With Overdose Meds, Columbia Students Save Lives
In the span of less than a year, five students have administered naloxone to overdose victims
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Pioneering AIDS researcher David D. Ho joins fight against COVID-19
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Meet the Expert Who Has Studied Handwashing for More than 40 Years
Elaine Larson, a professor emerita of nursing research and epidemiology, breaks down a hygiene essential
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Columbia Discoveries That Could Make 2020 Your Healthiest Year Yet
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The Miraculous Beauty and Healing Power of Ordinary Bacteria
Biomedical engineer Tal Danino finds both art and new cancer-fighting therapies in Earth's most abundant lifeforms
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It’s Time to Stop Obsessing about the War on Cancer
Leukemia specialist Azra Raza on why the medical field needs to focus more on early detection
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