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Epic Excellence Recognition Program Honors Preparations

October 16, 2019

Epic Excellence honorees go above and beyond to help their teams prepare for the transition to our new electronic medical record and business platform.
These secret battles between your body’s cells might just save your life

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Nature

October 15, 2019

“There was a eureka moment when Peter and I realized that these dMyc mutant cells would disappear,” says [Laura] Johnston, now a developmental biologist at Columbia University in New York City.
An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’

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The New York Times

October 15, 2019

Azra Raza, an oncologist at Columbia University, vividly illustrates this tug-of-war in her book “The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last.”
Stress During Pregnancy May Affect Baby's Sex, Risk of Preterm Birth

October 14, 2019

A new study has identified markers of maternal stress—both physical and psychological—that may influence a baby’s sex and the likelihood of preterm birth.

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Obstetrics-Gynecology
Stressed Pregnant Women Less Likely To Have Boys: 'The Womb Is an Influential First Home'

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Newsweek

October 14, 2019

"The womb is an influential first home, as important as the one a child is raised in," study leader Catherine Monk, from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, said in a statement.
The Future of Radiation Oncology: Q&A with Lisa Kachnic, MD

October 11, 2019

Lisa Kachnic, MD, the new chair of radiation oncology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has helped pioneer techniques that deliver radiation therapy to cancer patients with more precision.

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Cancer
Memory Deficits in Schizophrenia May Be Reversible, Study Suggests

October 11, 2019

A drug can restore working memory in adult mice that have a gene that causes schizophrenia, challenging the belief that memory issues in people with schizophrenia cannot be repaired.

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Neuroscience
Smoking Fewer Than 5 Cigarettes a Day Damages Your Lungs Almost as Much as Smoking a Whole Pack, Study Says

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TIME

October 10, 2019

Study co-author Dr. Elizabeth Oelsner, an internist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, says the finding should dissuade people from taking up any amount of smoking.
Ex-Smokers, Light Smokers Not Exempt from Lung Damage

October 9, 2019

A new study shows that smoking even a few cigarettes a day is harmful to lungs and that former smokers continue to lose lung function at a faster rate than never-smokers for decades after quitting.

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Pulmonary
Are We Ready for Designer Babies?

October 7, 2019

Columbia psychiatrist and ethicist Robert Klitzman addresses the quandaries we face over the changing ways we create children.

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