“Your immune response likes to react to what it’s seen before,” said David Ho, a professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University.
Editor's Note: Matt Walker is a third year doctoral student in the Department of Biology. He has been working with Laura Landweber and Samuel Sternberg in the Department of Biochemistry.
“The bottom line is that clinical trials need to be done,” said Vijay Yadav, a longevity researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who led the study.
A clean room is a very good option for people at high risk from exposure to polluted air, says Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, director of pediatric pulmonology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Christopher Tedeschi, emergency medicine physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University, talks about the health implications when the air is this smoky.
“She was the first person I ever saw as a patient,” said Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, who was still a medical student in 2000 when he first encountered April.
The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia began hosting a donor gratitude ceremony in the late 1970s, said Paulette Bernd, who runs the school’s clinical gross anatomy course.
At the end of the first year, people in the study who took the daily 500-mg pill and who were in the bottom tier of flavanols “normalized” their levels of flavanols, said study co-author Scott Small.
Adam Brickman, the Columbia University professor of neuropsychology who led the study, said “Well-designed studies are showing that there might indeed be some benefits” to taking multivitamins.
Editor's Note: Jason Carmel, featured in this story, is the Weinberg Family Associate Professor of Neurology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
