Editor's Note: Zev Williams, interviewed for this BBC podcast, is the director of the Columbia University Fertility Clinic. Dr. Williams's comments begin at 22:33.
Just under 8% of the U.S. population is now uninsured — the lowest rate in American history, said Michael Sparer, chair of the Columbia University Department of Health Policy and Management.
"If you told me 20 years ago that we were going to have major problems with coronaviruses, I wouldn’t have predicted that,” Ian Lipkin, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, tells TODAY.
“It won’t be harmless for the administration to broadly attack public health,” said Alfredo Morabia, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University.
Dr. Judy Korner, an endocrinologist and the founder and director of the Metabolic and Weight Control Center at Columbia University, says Ozempic mimics the hormone GLP-1.
Aaron Myers, a senior associate dean at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, said that fluoridated water particularly benefits those with the least access to regular dental care.
“We never dared to think about the cure for our disease,” says Anca Askanase, a rheumatologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who specializes in lupus.
“If it works it will be very exciting.” The findings are “very, very preliminary,” said Dr. Lawrence Honig, a professor of neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
These days, “many investigators are reluctant to emphasize sex differences in their research,” says Dr. Marianne J. Legato, emerita professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University.
