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Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries
Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair
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What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?
In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work
How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.
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The Art of "Radical Listening"
Columbia holds a three-day workshop on the healing power of narrative medicine
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The Secret Life of Bones
Science suggests the skeleton is our most underrated organ
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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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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
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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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The Secret Research That Could Make You Healthier
A business professor studies the psychology of secrets
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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
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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