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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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Touring Brooklyn’s Urban Farms

Students get a fresh look at the issues of food justice and sustainability

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Can a Surgeon Be Too Stressed to Operate?

Anxious docs are more prone to mistakes, study finds

ToxicDocs founders Gerald Markowitz, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and David Rosner
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ToxicDocs Exposes Industry Misdeeds

A database reveals which American companies have been accused of knowingly harming citizens with products containing poisonous substances

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Health & Medicine

The Secret Research That Could Make You Healthier

A business professor studies the psychology of secrets

Columbia Social Work professor Nabila El-Bassel on Columbia campus
Health & Medicine

School of Social Work to Lead $86 Million Opioid Response in New York State

The effort, part of a nationwide research study, is being led by Professor Nabila El-Bassel ’89SW

Tzivia Gover, director of the Institute for Dream Studies
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The Science of Sleep

We talk with mindfulness expert Tzivia Gover '96SOA, the director of the Institute for Dream Studies

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Dutch Famine of 1944 Provides Window Into Natural Selection

A study finds new explanation for obesity and diabetes among famine survivors 

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Don’t Mess With These Neurons!

Scientists find "aggressive" part of the hippocampus

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Let's Talk About Sex

A study finds that high-school students who are taught to communicate with their peers about sex are less likely to be sexually assaulted in college

Columbia neuroscientist Mark Churchland on the climbing wall at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center
Health & Medicine

The Climbing Neuroscientist

Why brain science and bouldering have more in common than you think

A patient simulation robot with a breathing mask at the Columbia University School of Nursing
Health & Medicine

Meet Hal: He's One Sick Robot

At Columbia’s School of Nursing, a medical simulation center exposes students to the emotional and practical challenges of patient care

Columbia geneticist Angela Christiano
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Radical Solutions for Baldness

Geneticist Angela Christiano’s research not only offers hope to those suffering from hair loss, it could point the way to new cancer therapies

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