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The most common tests for glaucoma can underestimate the severity of the condition because they do not detect the presence of central vision loss, ophthalmologists at Columbia have found.
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A new study in Amish people suggests that reducing the activity of a protein that regulates plasma triglycerides could prevent cardiovascular disease.
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Columbia neuroscientists are deciphering the unique way we detect gentle touch.
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ICAP launched the world’s first multi-country HIV treatment program in 2003 and has helped bring life-saving treatment to nearly 1.5 million people in resource-poor regions around the world.
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New York Times MagazineNovember 14, 2018David Sachs is the Columbia University immunologist who created the GalT-KO pig back in the late ’90s.
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BBC FutureNovember 14, 2018Stephen Morse is an epidemiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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NBC NewsNovember 10, 2018The new findings “will absolutely have the potential to change the way we practice,” said Dr. Nisha Jhalani of ... Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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Cancer
- October 31, 2018
A new study found that women with cervical cancer who had a radical hysterectomy with minimally invasive surgery had a significantly higher risk of death than those who had open surgery.
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- October 12, 2018
For the second year, Velocity, Columbia's Ride to End Cancer raised more than $1 million for cancer care and research.
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- October 11, 2018
A new study shows how certain cells ‘cheat’ during cell competition to eliminate their neighbors and take over tissues; the findings could point toward new strategies for treating cancer.
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Neuroscience
- November 8, 2018
Columbia neuroscientists are deciphering the unique way we detect gentle touch.
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- November 5, 2018
When choosing a candidate to vote for, your brain secretly does math.
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- October 24, 2018
Columbia neuroscientists show how a bone hormone acts in the brains of mice to improve memory, and how aging sabotages the process.
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Heart Health
- November 15, 2018
A new study in Amish people suggests that reducing the activity of a protein that regulates plasma triglycerides could prevent cardiovascular disease.
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- September 24, 2018
A study led by Columbia researchers found that a minimally invasive technique to repair the mitral valve improved two-year survival for certain heart failure patients.
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- August 27, 2018
A new study led by Columbia's Mathew Maurer found that tafamidis reduced deaths from transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy, a type of heart failure.
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Public Health
- November 7, 2018
ICAP launched the world’s first multi-country HIV treatment program in 2003 and has helped bring life-saving treatment to nearly 1.5 million people in resource-poor regions around the world.
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- November 2, 2018
Access to health care in the United States is at stake on Election Day, says Michael Sparer, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health
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- October 16, 2018
Speed cameras rank among the most cost-effective social policies, saving both money and lives, according to research conducted at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
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Campus News
- November 9, 2018
Rudolph Leibel, a professor of pediatrics and a veteran, led the restoration of the Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial in time for a ceremony marking the centennial of the end of World War I.
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- October 23, 2018
CUIMC Celebrates acknowledges individuals at Columbia University Irving Medical Center for their grants, honors, and leadership positions.
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- October 15, 2018
Andrea Califano and Jordan Orange of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for their contributions to medical science.
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Research
- November 19, 2018
A new program at Columbia is looking for earlier signs of ALS so that future treatments can be delivered before extensive neurological damage occurs.
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- November 15, 2018
The most common tests for glaucoma can underestimate the severity of the condition because they do not detect the presence of central vision loss, ophthalmologists at Columbia have found.
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- November 14, 2018
With a genome that’s regularly broken into 225,000 pieces and reassembled, a pond protist may be the perfect creature to teach us how genomic stability—often lost in cancer—is maintained.
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