Warning letters from Medicare sent to high prescribers reduced prescriptions of risky antipsychotics for elderly people with dementia without negatively affecting patient health.
Mailman study reveals post-storm rise in deaths from injuries, infectious disease, respiratory disease, heart disease, and neuropsychiatric disorders as hidden cost of climate-related disasters.
Columbia has helped launch New York City’s new Pandemic Response Institute, which will develop an equitable crisis response that doesn’t leave people behind.
Computer models have helped anticipate COVID’s peaks and troughs, but models have a “cone of uncertainty” and much about the future of the pandemic remains unknown.
Black and Hispanic nursing home residents are more likely than their white counterparts to live in facilities that provide fewer palliative care services, a study from Columbia Nursing shows.
Prices paid to anesthesia practitioners increased after hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers contracted with a physician management company, a new study finds.
Epidurals lessen the risk of postpartum hemorrhaging, the leading cause of preventable severe maternal morbidity, according to a new study from Columbia University.
Two in five people who use alcohol and cannabis together admit driving under the influence of alcohol, cannabis, or both, according to a new study from the Mailman School of Public Health.
A grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multi-institutional group in New York City to address health disparities in multiple chronic diseases.
The new director of the Pandemic Response Institute at Columbia's ICAP says the voices of the most marginalized must be brought into the conversation to improve future pandemic response.