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Medicine’s History, Illustrated

September 3, 2015

Several rare medical texts with striking imagery are newly available online thanks to CUMC’s Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library.

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Campus News
New Drug Delivery Method Could Improve Lung Disease Treatment

September 3, 2015

Columbia engineers and P&S researchers have developed a way to deliver drugs that may provide more effective treatments for many lung diseases.

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Research
“The City of the Hospital”: On Teaching Medical Students to Write

September 2, 2015

Writing by P&S students is included in David Hellerstein's article in the Journal of Medical Humanities, in which he describes the creative writing workshop for medical students.

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Education
Scientist Maps Regions of the Brain that Respond to Weight Loss

September 2, 2015

A neuroscientist and obesity researcher at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center is mapping the regions of the brain that either respond or fail to respond to weight loss.

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Neuroscience
Two Vietnam Veterans, An Art Show, and Half a Century Later

September 1, 2015

Two Vietnam veterans at Columbia, a P&S faculty member and a public safety officer, connect through the annual CUMC Art Show.

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Campus News
Cartoonist Dr. Benjamin Schwartz Draws on Medical Training

September 1, 2015

Benjamin Schwartz, a P&S alumnus and New Yorker cartoonist, returns to teach in the program in Narrative Medicine.

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Campus News
Suzanne Bakken Named Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence

September 1, 2015

A Columbia Nursing professor has been named scholar-in-residence at the National Academies.

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Nursing
WNYC Radio: Physicians Pay Respects to Oliver Sacks’s Medical Contributions

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WNYC Radio

September 1, 2015
Proportion of People with Diabetes Undergoing Heart Surgery Spikes

August 31, 2015

An analysis documents worse outcomes and burgeoning costs for patients with diabetes who have coronary artery disease that requires surgery.

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Diabetes
Gene Leads to Nearsightedness When Kids Read

August 31, 2015

Vision researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have discovered a gene that causes myopia, but only in people who spend a lot of time in childhood reading or doing other “nearwork.”

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Ophthalmology

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