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The new report addresses the responsible use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and is a call to action for biomedical research to rethink how it uses race and ethnicity.
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The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care can cause significant, ongoing financial hardship, particularly for lower-income families with commercial insurance, a new study shows.
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The center will catalyze research into the complex relationships between climate and health and promote evidence-based policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.
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The 2024 Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award recognizes Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim for global contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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- May 14, 2024
A symposium commemorated the accomplishments of the program, one of the first academic programs in the world to address the deficiencies in health services provided in humanitarian response.
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- May 9, 2024
After the rollout of a subway safety plan in February 2022, complaints to transit police had not returned to pre-pandemic levels 18 months later.
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- April 30, 2024
Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH, confronts racial inequities in breast cancer and unveils the hidden impacts of chemical exposures from personal care products.
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- April 30, 2024
Warning letters from Medicare sent to high prescribers reduced prescriptions of risky antipsychotics for elderly people with dementia without negatively affecting patient health.
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- April 17, 2024
Project STAY brings sexual health education and STI screening to underserved people in high schools, colleges, and other locations.
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- April 10, 2024
Young mothers have signs of faster cellular aging than other young women or young fathers, suggesting that pregnancy accelerates biological aging.
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- April 4, 2024
Study finds that postpartum depression is underdiagnosed in those reporting symptoms up to a year after giving birth, with Black and Asian individuals least likely to receive treatment.
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- March 28, 2024
Columbia public health researchers have found that laws that punish drug use during pregnancy worsened family health outcomes or had no beneficial effect, contrary to the laws' intent.
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- March 20, 2024
Living in federally supported housing—especially public housing—limits residents’ exposure to lead.
- March 20, 2024
New research suggests that a healthy diet is associated with reduced dementia risk because a healthy diet slows the pace of aging.
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