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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 3, 2014
Walter Bockting, PhD, is one of the world’s leading experts on transgender health.
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- May 29, 2014
Kawasaki disease, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, may be caused by fungal particles or toxins carried on wind currents from northeastern China to Japan.
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- May 16, 2014
In less than a week, more than 300 Mailman School students will celebrate their academic accomplishments.
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- May 13, 2014
Mailman School professor Ursula Staudinger, who has been studying personal wisdom for decades, will deliver a lecture tomorrow night on the potentials and challenges of aging.
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- May 8, 2014
Reducing air pollution in New York City could improve children’s economic futures, according to research from the Mailman School of Public Health.
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- May 5, 2014
A New England Journal of Medicine Perspective calls for academic institutions to foster research in implementation science and advance research to confront global challenges.
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- May 5, 2014
Midwifes from Columbia University School of Nursing are working in Bangladesh to reduce that country's maternal death rate.
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- May 2, 2014
New, more definitive evidence implicates camels in the ongoing outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
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- April 30, 2014
Diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Ethiopia is improving, thanks to a program run by Mailman's ICAP.
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- April 21, 2014
On April 23, Linda Birnbaum will discuss how chemicals in our environment can affect our bodies in much the same way as medicines, but with unwanted results.
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