“If you’re worrying about putting food on the table, your prenatal care appointment isn't going to be your top priority,” said Rebecca Carlin, assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University.
Humans evolved to resist losing body fat so that we don’t become extinct, says Rudolph Leibel, chief of the pediatric molecular genetics division at Columbia University’s medical center.
But policies that dismiss mental health as less important than physical health endanger patients, said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University psychiatrist.
Unmedicated children may struggle to learn and regulate their behavior in class, Warren Ng, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, tells TODAY.com.
Editor's Note: Helen Ouyang, the author of this opinion piece, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
“He was fascinated by how people behaved, and why they behaved that way,” said Prudence Fisher, a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Andrea Califano, a systems biologist at Columbia University who is directing the New York Biohub, said they hope to make significant progress on decoding the immune “language” in three years.
“Next to air,” water is “really the most important thing for maintenance of your health,” said Tsion Firew, a physician at Columbia University who has worked on water access in humanitarian settings.
