By Brittany King and Sharon Tregaskis // Portraits by Jörg Meyer
December 16, 2020
As VP&S begins implementing an action plan for anti-racism in medical education, students and faculty share their own perspectives on the intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.
Fiorella Bellini, 29, a nurse in the I.C.U. at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was approached by her manager to see if she would be interested in being among the first to be vaccinated at the hospital.
And the signs can be different for different people, says Madelyn Gould, a professor of epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University who studies suicide and suicide prevention.
Editor's Note: Ersilia M. DeFilippis, the author of this article, is a cardiology fellow at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
For multiple myeloma patients with RAS mutations, inhibiting an enzyme involved in cell proliferation may help patients resistant to current therapies, a new Columbia study has found.
Preterm births increased by nearly 7% among women from countries impacted by the 2017 "Muslim travel ban" in the eight months after the ban was enacted.
