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Twenty years ago, when AIDS was devastating communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Columbia's Wafaa El-Sadr created an organization to save lives in some of the continent’s hardest-hit countries.
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Two new monoclonal antibodies are prime candidates for development into new COVID drugs for people with weak immune systems.
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A new study published in Nature offers reassuring data on the updated COVID vaccines.
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Quick fixes are not the answer when seeking ways to boost your immunity or increase your protection against infection.
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- February 4, 2015
Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics and of population & family health, has spoken out to debunk seven myths about the measles vaccine.
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- January 6, 2015
Preventing two of the most common health care-associated infections—bloodstream infections caused by central lines and pneumonia caused by ventilators—can increase the odds that these patients survive.
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- January 6, 2015
Study by Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, found that text message reminders helped increase young children's likelihood of receiving second dose of flu vaccine.
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- December 18, 2014
Articles about hair regeneration, cocoa and memory, and flu forecasting are among the most-viewed research stories on CUMC websites.
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- December 11, 2014
Malaria drug resistance in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene in the disease-causing parasite, a Columbia-led study has found.
- December 8, 2014
Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop a model that forecasts the severity of flu and could have applications for predicting other infectious diseases.
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- December 3, 2014
Columbia nursing students launch campaign to keep New Yorkers’ hands warm while raising funds to donate latex gloves to Ebola workers in West Africa.
- November 26, 2014
Plans are under way for Columbia Ebola experts to set up a state-of-the-art diagnostic laboratory in the heart of the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
- November 12, 2014
While celebrating Dr. Spencer’s recovery, his colleagues have renewed their commitment to raising public understanding of the disease.
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- November 12, 2014
Reducing the time between Ebola diagnosis and treatment could dramatically alter the shape and size of the outbreak, says Columbia's Wafaa El-Sadr, MD.
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