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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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- November 27, 2013
Findings raise the possibility of a new approach to combating malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
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- November 4, 2013
Brief risk-reduction counseling at the time of a rapid HIV test did not reduce new STIs during the subsequent six months among persons at risk for HIV.
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- October 16, 2013
New findings suggest that narrow-spectrum UV light could dramatically reduce surgical infections – which remain a serious and stubborn problem, killing up to 8,200 patients a year in the U.S. – without damaging human tissue
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- September 9, 2013
Scientists estimate a minimum of 320,000 undiscovered viruses in mammals. Knowledge of them could aid early detection and mitigation of disease outbreaks in humans.
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- August 23, 2013
An Egyptian Tomb Bat near the site of the first known case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome was found to harbor the virus for the disease, report researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity.
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- August 9, 2013
Watch all eight talks from TEDMED Day CUMC, now available online.
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- July 29, 2013
Q & A on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of Lyme disease.
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- July 26, 2013
Columbia virologist Vincent Racaniello will be teaching a free, introductory course about viruses, online at Coursera.
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- July 10, 2013
Columbia researcher David Fidock raises alarm about emerging resistance to the world's most effective malaria treatments.
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- May 30, 2013
When doctors at a local community hospital were unable to diagnose a three-month-old baby’s illness, she was transferred to the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (MSCHONY), where she was quickly diagnosed with botulism and successfully treated.
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