Health departments continue to face challenges in recruiting new employees including insufficient funding, a shortage of people with public health training, and lengthy hiring processes.
Including BRCA1 testing with prenatal carrier screening could identify people at risk of breast, ovarian, and pancreatic cancer at a time when cancer screening could save their lives.
Columbia Nursing's creation of its Doctor of Nursing Practice program was revolutionary in 2004, and their model of doctorate-level clinical education for nurses remains in the vanguard.
Editor's Note: Filko Prugo is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
People with the condition typically avoid reminders of the traumatic event. “One of the problems with PTSD is, you pull inward,” said Dr. John Markowitz.
Dean of Columbia University School of Nursing and breast cancer survivor Lorraine Frazier joins @Alex_Presha to support cancer survivors and advocate for public awareness.
“The age at which someone starts their periods is kind of a barometer of how they're doing in general,” says Lauren Houghton, an assistant professor at epidemiology at Columbia University.
Along with exacerbating asthma, air pollution can spark new onset airway disease, says Matt Perzanowski, an associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University.
