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Researchers hoped treatment of HIV-infected infants within hours of birth would increase remission, but a new study finds that starting treatment within the first two weeks leads to similar outcomes.
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CNNOp-ed for CNN by Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a primary care pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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The first-ever detailed images of a malaria protein, a key modulator of drug resistance, show how the parasite evades antimalarials—and may help scientists find ways to restore the drugs’ potency.
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Columbia's David Ho and Wafaa El-Sadr—who have been fighting HIV and AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s—say ending AIDs in the United States by 2030 will take political will.
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- October 6, 2014
Columbia Nursing confronts the Ebola outbreak, a tragic, textbook example of a public health crisis.
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- August 5, 2014
CUMC experts in infectious disease and public health are keeping the public informed about the outbreak and the potential of the virus to spread.
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- July 9, 2014
The new 2014 Irving Scholars are Siddhartha Mukherjee, Carolyn Rodriguez, Bret Rutherford, and Anne-Catrin Uhlemann.
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- June 23, 2014
A Columbia Nursing study found that eHealth interventions are associated with reductions in risky sexual behaviors and increases in HIV testing among men who have sex with men.
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- May 30, 2014
P&S systems biologists dive into huge databases of genomes, proteins, and metabolites to find new ways to target the world’s most deadly pathogens.
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- May 29, 2014
Kawasaki disease, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, may be caused by fungal particles or toxins carried on wind currents from northeastern China to Japan.
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- May 5, 2014
A New England Journal of Medicine Perspective calls for academic institutions to foster research in implementation science and advance research to confront global challenges.
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- May 2, 2014
New, more definitive evidence implicates camels in the ongoing outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
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- April 30, 2014
Diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Ethiopia is improving, thanks to a program run by Mailman's ICAP.
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