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Front-line Couple Share Experiences During COVID-19 Pandemic

By Rose Spaziani

May 15, 2020

Being married helped emergency medicine physicians Bernard Chang and Anisa Heravian cope with the pandemic while raising a newborn.

Topic

Campus News
Lowering Testosterone May Reduce Severity of COVID-19

May 15, 2020

Lowering testosterone may prevent the new coronavirus from entering lung cells and lessen COVID-19 severity, new Columbia University research suggests. A trial has now begun in three VA hospitals.

Topic

COVID-19
Discussion of COVID Racial Disparities Needs More Context

May 15, 2020

Reports that highlight the disparate impact of COVID-19 in communities of color should pay more attention to factors that give rise to those outcomes, Mailman researchers say.

Topic

Infectious Diseases
Commencement 2020: CUIMC Student Stories

May 15, 2020

Meet some of the medical, public health, nursing, and dental students graduating from CUIMC schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topic

Campus News
COVID Trial Finder Simplifies Search for Patients Seeking Studies

May 15, 2020

Columbia University's new "COVID-19 Trial Finder" is a simplified method for patients, clinicians, and healthy volunteers to find appropriate COVID clinical trials near their home.

Topic

Infectious Diseases
Why the Coronavirus Hits Kids and Adults So Differently(link is external and opens in a new window)

Source:

The Atlantic

May 15, 2020

“Everything an infant sees, or a young child sees, is new,” says Donna Farber, an immunologist at Columbia University. Thus, their immune system is primed to fight new pathogens in a number of ways.
Education of Dentistry Students Adapts to COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020

Along with video conferencing for classes, Columbia's College of Dental Medicine is introducing students to telehealth and utilizing new software to educate students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topic

Dentistry
How a Department Chair Became America’s Covid-19 Correspondent(link is external and opens in a new window)

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 13, 2020

And then there were Craig Smith’s evening emails to Columbia’s surgery department, posted to the department’s website and shared by fans on Twitter.
Graduates from VP&S Class of 2020 Take on COVID-19 in New Hospital Roles

By Julia Hickey

May 13, 2020

Eighty-eight members of the VP&S Class of 2020 who graduated early on April 15 now work to support health care workers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital before moving on to residencies this summer.

Topic

Campus News
Dynamics of Gut Bacteria Follow Ecological Laws

May 12, 2020

The fluctuations of gut microbial communities follow ecological principles developed for animals and financial markets, which may help to predict disease biomarkers and effects of unhealthy diets.

Topic

Research