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CUIMC faculty and staff have borne witness to COVID's devastating toll and now many are sharing their own personal reasons for getting vaccinated.
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Columbia University bioethicist Maya Sabatello says a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is needed to confront the structural racism in health care (and society) highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, will serve as the next director of Columbia World Projects, an initiative focused on bringing Columbia's academic resources to bear on the great challenges facing humanity.
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Seven outstanding employees were recognized for their contributions to the medical school's workplace and community.
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Events
- Wednesday, January 27, 20213:00 PM to 4:00 PM
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Online Event - Wednesday, January 27, 20214:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Wednesday, January 27, 20214:00 PM to 5:00 PM
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In The Media
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The New York TimesJanuary 26, 2021Organizations have begun helping doctors and nurses with mental health issues. Columbia University, for example, created CopeColumbia for employees of Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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The New York TimesJanuary 24, 2021Social distancing, masking and other measures should remain in place until late July, “and that may be optimistic,” said Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University.
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The New York TimesJanuary 17, 2021“That was the critical time,” said Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University. “That was the opportune moment that was lost.”
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COVID-19
- January 15, 2021
CUIMC faculty and staff have borne witness to COVID's devastating toll and now many are sharing their own personal reasons for getting vaccinated.
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- January 12, 2021
Columbia University bioethicist Maya Sabatello says a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is needed to confront the structural racism in health care (and society) highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- January 11, 2021
Cancer patients are especially vulnerable to COVID and would benefit from the protection the vaccine offers, says Gary Schwartz, MD, deputy director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Cancer
- January 11, 2021
Cancer patients are especially vulnerable to COVID and would benefit from the protection the vaccine offers, says Gary Schwartz, MD, deputy director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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- January 11, 2021
A new analysis of almost 10,000 patients found that tumors could be stratified into 112 subtypes regardless of the cancer’s origin.
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- January 11, 2021
A new study has found that up to 20% of aggressive brain cancers are fueled by overactive mitochondria and new drugs in development may be able to starve the cancers.
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Neuroscience
- December 18, 2020
Uncertainty about the future has a way of taking over the mind, and a new study from Columbia neuroscientists is starting to reveal what changes take place in the unsure brain.
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- November 20, 2020
Columbia researchers have found a potential neurobiological mechanism for hallucinations and delusions that fits within the hierarchical model of psychosis and can explain their clinical presentation.
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- October 22, 2020
Columbia neuroscientists have identified neurons in mice that distinguish familiar companions from strangers and may help explain why people with schizophrenia struggle in social situations.
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Heart Health
- October 26, 2020
Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of maternal mortality in the United States, but a new study suggests specialized cardio-obstetrics teams may improve outcomes.
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- October 16, 2020
People with congenital heart disease had a lower-than-expected risk for severe symptoms from COVID-19, a new study has found.
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- October 8, 2020
Columbia Nursing's Billy Caceres chaired a group that wrote the first American Heart Association Scientific Statement addressing LGBTQ heart health, published in the journal Circulation.
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Public Health
- January 22, 2021
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, will serve as the next director of Columbia World Projects, an initiative focused on bringing Columbia's academic resources to bear on the great challenges facing humanity.
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- January 5, 2021
A strategic decision-making and team-building exercise for hospital executives—developed at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health—now includes a simulated pandemic.
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- December 9, 2020
Preterm births increased by nearly 7% among women from countries impacted by the 2017 "Muslim travel ban" in the eight months after the ban was enacted.
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Campus News
- January 25, 2021
View the CUIMC Update, a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees.
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- January 25, 2021
Seven outstanding employees were recognized for their contributions to the medical school's workplace and community.
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- January 22, 2021
The CUIMC Task Force for Addressing Structural Racism in the Health Sciences has developed a lecture series to focus on research on racial/ethnic health disparities and their solutions.
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