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Live Your Best Life
- May 7, 2024
Blandine Laferrère, MD, PhD, an endocrinologist with expertise in diabetes, metabolism, and weight management, offers guidance on the possible health benefits of intermittent fasting.
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- May 7, 2024
Up to 84% of postmenopausal women experience GSM, which can affect sexual health and quality of life. Dr. Mary Rosser discusses treatment options and how to talk to your partner about it.
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- April 17, 2024
Children can often be picky eaters, which is also part of normal development, but sometimes, picky eating can become more serious. A dietitian explains what ARFID is and how to treat it.
Health in the News
- May 8, 2024
Carcinogens are all around us. But arsenic, the world's oldest known carcinogen, is especially deadly to some communities, according to our expert.
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- April 3, 2024
An eye doctor explains how to safely look at the sun during a solar eclipse, and protect your eyes from the sun all year round.
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- March 14, 2024
Where there’s smoke, there’s particulate matter. Our expert pulmonologist explains why that’s bad for everyone’s health.
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Your Questions Answered
- April 19, 2024
Explaining a dentist visit to a child should be simple and reassuring, helping them feel comfortable and prepared. Our expert dentist shares tips for parents to help prep their kids.
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- April 11, 2024
Improving the air quality in your home, office, and everyone indoors is essential for health and wellbeing, according to pediatric pulmonologist Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD.
- April 3, 2024
A lung cancer specialist explains everything about lung cancer screening, including how it works, who should get screened, and what she tells patients as a former smoker.
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Care @ Columbia
- March 14, 2024
Menstrual health directly impacts more than half of the world’s population, yet is frequently overlooked or outright ignored. Public health expert Dr. Marni Sommer is working to change that.
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- February 28, 2024
Nicole Pacheco Tchalim, MD, is educating new providers who will grow the field of reproductive psychiatry, which aims to address mental health challenges in pregnancy and postpartum care.
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- February 5, 2024
Dr. Charles Drew was a surgeon and researcher who overcame racial barriers to transform blood donation, saving millions of lives, and advance the education of Black physicians.
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The Future of Medicine
- March 26, 2024
Recently, AI was used by research scientists to help detect pancreatic cancer three years faster than could be done without the technology. Pancreatic Cancer expert John Chabot, MD explains.
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- March 4, 2024
Columbia scientists are learning how lack of sleep strains our bodies—and how getting more rest lowers the risk for a range of diseases.
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- June 8, 2023
Columbia researchers have identified taurine deficiency as a key driver of aging in animals. They explain how taurine could affect again in humans.
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