Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Katherine Keyes, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, about a CDC report that found drug overdose deaths increased by 2% last year.
"Kids have been moving towards a view that marijuana is safe and benign — that’s factually incorrect," says lead author Ryan Sultan, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.
Individuals aren’t the only ones affected. Collecting DNA also implicates “family members and, in some contexts, communities,” said Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, a biomedical ethicist at Columbia University.
“I’m so excited about this FDA ruling,” said Dr. Mary Rosser, an assistant professor of women’s health at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
“Despite availability of a variety of contraceptive methods, nearly half of the pregnancies every year are unintended,” Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, of the Mailman School of Public Health, testified.
The relationship between allergens and mood disorders “really is underrecognized,” said Dr. David A. Gudis of NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
For those across Asian cultures, how one-on-one talk therapy is conducted can feel uncomfortable, said Dr. Warren Ng of NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
It’s difficult to pin down how prevalent ovulation pain is because, in most cases, it’s so mild women don’t report it, said Jenna Turocy, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia.
Editor's Note: W. Ian Lipkin, the author of this opinion essay, is director of the Center of Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Sander Markx, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, said the center will allow Columbia to scale up its efforts to characterize disease mechanisms that trigger illness.
