Dr. Marc Eisenberg welcomed the new research. “This is an exciting study, but at this time statins are still the best treatment for most people with high cholesterol and cardiovascular risk factors.”
Some men shy away from seeing doctors because they fear receiving bad news, said Dr. Joseph Alukal, urologist and director of Men’s Health at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
Editor's Note: Millie Embree, interviewed for this piece, is the Dr. Edwin S. Robinson Assistant Professor of Dental Medicine (Orthodontics) at the College of Dental Medicine.
Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, said the push into hard sodas appeared to target women, whose alcohol intake has been catching up to men’s in recent years.
Editor's Note: David Rosner, a co-author of this opinion piece, is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Presenting to the Biophysical Society, Dr. Andrew Marks, chair of the Department of Physiology at Columbia University, reported on changes in the heart tissue of patients who had died from Covid-19.
Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, started with a simple assumption, that the fatality rate for people infected in China was roughly the same as it presently is in the U.S.
But Michael Sparer, a professor at Columbia University who has been researching the $2 billion program, said that Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky and other states struggled mightily to use the money.
