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Second-year medical students at Columbia University celebrated their transition to clinical education with the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician’s Ceremony on Jan. 6.
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More than 200 new faculty have joined 22 departments across VP&S this past year, bringing with them expertise in a wide range of fields.
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We spoke with Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford about the unique stresses of medical school and how the new office will help students adapt and succeed.
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VP&S and Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown, New York are working together to address the issue of access to improve the health of rural populations.
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- July 3, 2018
Pediatrics chair Jordan Scott Orange is a physician-scientist who will focus on clinical care and research.
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- June 29, 2018
Cell-based therapy expert Pawel Muranski, MD, discusses the challenges of testing cancer immunotherapy drugs in new patient groups.
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- June 26, 2018
For women, even mild sleep problems can raise blood pressure, finds a new study.
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- June 22, 2018
As the World Cup games continue, we talked to neurologist James Noble, MD, about the known—and unknown—risks of heading in soccer.
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- June 20, 2018
Columbia neuroscientist Dr. Eric Kandel was a refugee who fled to the United States in 1939. In 2000, Dr. Kandel won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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- June 6, 2018
Cachexia, the debilitating muscle wasting that occurs in late-stage cancer patients, may be due to an overload of zinc in muscles, finds a new study.
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- June 4, 2018
Joint pain relief from omega-3s may help more women adhere to hormonal breast cancer treatment, a study suggests.
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- June 1, 2018
OnTrackNY, a care program for individuals with early psychosis, decreased hospitalization rates from 70 percent to 10 percent and doubled rates of participation in education and employment.
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- May 31, 2018
Three Vagelos P&S medical students have been awarded year-long biomedical research fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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- May 24, 2018
New guidelines from physicians at Columbia and NYP may help determine what to do when patients lacking decisional capacity refuse recommended medical care.
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