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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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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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Pandemic Highlights Urgent Need for Long-Term Vaccine Development

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

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

"Coexistence (detail)," 2019. Art made from bacteria by Columbia biomedical engineer Tal Danino.
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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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Health & Medicine

Does the US Transplant System Waste too Many Kidneys?

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

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Health & Medicine

The Latest on Vaping Risks

Research from Columbia indicates that e-cigarette users are inhaling dangerous amounts of nickel and chromium 

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Health & Medicine

The Art of "Radical Listening"

Columbia holds a three-day workshop on the healing power of narrative medicine

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Health & Medicine

The Secret Life of Bones

Science suggests the skeleton is our most underrated organ

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Health & Medicine

Now Scientists Can Alert Immune System to Cancer Cells in Hiding

The technique could lay the groundwork for a new type of immunotherapy

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Making Precision Medicine Work for Every Body

A new study aims to identify ways of diversifying genetic databases

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