“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.
Beyond that, doctors often suggest avoiding certain foods and drinks that seemingly trigger a hot flash, said Dr. Hoosna Haque, an OB-GYN at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
“During Covid, a lot of published data showed increases in eating disorders both inpatient and some outpatient as well,” Joanna Steinglass of the Eating Disorders Research Clinic at Columbia told me.
“Our evidence of a negative result is really reassuring,” said lead author Dr. Dani Dumitriu, a newborn hospitalist and neuroscientist at Columbia University.
