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An engineer and a physician are working together to pioneer a new approach using focused ultrasound to treat dozens of brain diseases.
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A new study finds that preteens with addictive patterns of social media, video games, or mobile phones use are more likely to experience worse mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
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Gazi Azad helped develop Partners in School, an implementation package designed to increase the use of evidence-based practices at home and in school for children with autism.
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Most unlicensed cannabis retailers in New York City ignore state regulations aimed at preventing youths from purchasing their products, Columbia researchers have found.
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- January 29, 2021
The HPV vaccine has great potential to reduce the rate of cervical cancer in Africa, where Columbia researchers are trying to increase vaccination rates with texts.
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- November 30, 2020
Columbia’s Evelyn Berger-Jenkins, MD, has co-authored new recommendations to help pediatricians address emotional and behavioral health issues in children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- November 5, 2020
Compared with adults, children produce a very different antibody response after infection with the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, suggesting they clear the virus easily.
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- November 4, 2020
Community health workers at NYP/CUIMC were needed more than ever during the pandemic, helping patients access the resources they needed to stay healthy and safe.
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- September 3, 2020
The new pediatric palliative care team works to ease children's pain and ensure that each family's values and preferences are heard and respected.
- June 20, 2020
A new study reveals how P. aeruginosa bacteria—which cause many deaths worldwide from pneumonia—commandeer our immune defenses to thrive inside the lungs.
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- June 15, 2020
In two new papers, Columbia pediatricians describe two different types of serious COVID disease that occur rarely in children.
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- May 8, 2020
For new mothers with COVID-19 who delivered at Columbia, the clinic offers telemedicine and safe care for newborns in the first week of life, regardless of the mother’s health insurance status.
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- February 10, 2020
A 2018 study found that children from poor neighborhoods fare worse after heart surgery compared with kids from wealthier areas. Now Columbia researchers are trying to understand why.
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- December 19, 2019
Physician-scientist Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, has been named chief of the Division of Clinical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics, effective Jan. 1, 2020.
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