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What you think you know about healthy eating may be incorrect. A Columbia nutritionist sets the record straight--and shares a recipe too.
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The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. A new study shows that decades of inhaled particulates due to air pollution also take a toll.
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Chronic liver disease is surging in the United States. No group is more affected than Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
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Eligible older adults who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may have slower memory decline than eligible people who do not participate, according to a new study.
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- June 27, 2014
Kendrick Cato, PhD, associate research scientist at Columbia Nursing, searches for infection sources in an unlikely place: electronic records.
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- June 24, 2014
A three-day symposium organized by the Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School in concert with Columbia School of Journalism brought together leading experts on aging and journalists who cover the issue.
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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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- June 20, 2014
A Mailman student helped a community health center translate complex health information into accessible writing for its website.
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- June 18, 2014
Two Columbia Public Health professors find that a global health model for reducing maternal mortality has broad health-care benefits.
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- June 17, 2014
In an article published in The Atlantic magazine, noted gerontologist and Mailman School of Public Health Dean Linda Fried discusses aging.
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- June 16, 2014
More than 50 public health schools gathered at Columbia for “A Public Health Approach to Incarceration,” a conference organized by the Mailman School and the Tow Foundation.
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- June 10, 2014
Four CUMC students have been chosen as ICAP’s Next Generation interns with assignments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, and Mozambique.
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- June 6, 2014
CUMC psychiatrists and public health experts discuss the potential health effects of legalized marijuana.
- June 5, 2014
First research to show the link between sudden bereavement and common psychiatric disorders by studying a large national population sample.
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