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Don't let vacation days expire: Vacation is good for your health.
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An emergency medicine doctor explains heat illness and how to beat summer heat.
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Three experts in reproductive health and justice at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health discuss how the decision will affect public health.
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When we reimagine health care for Black women, we can improve health outcomes.
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- October 7, 2013
Drug use, especially when combined with alcohol, increases risk of fatal car crash involvement, according to Mailman study.
- October 2, 2013
New findings suggest an association between smoking during pregnancy and increased risk for developing bipolar disorder in adult children.
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- September 16, 2013
The case for reducing dietary salt: We need to weigh the scientific evidence, costs, likely benefits, and possible unintended consequences.
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- September 9, 2013
Scientists estimate a minimum of 320,000 undiscovered viruses in mammals. Knowledge of them could aid early detection and mitigation of disease outbreaks in humans.
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- September 2, 2013
Ozone, even at levels below air-quality standards in most parts of the world, has significant negative impacts on worker productivity, according to Mailman School of Public Health study.
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- August 28, 2013
Deficiency of a protein in the hippocampus is a major cause of age-related memory loss, and this form of memory loss is reversible, according to Columbia researchers.
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- August 26, 2013
The “pharmacy murders,” as they became known, shed light on a drug epidemic that has remained under the radar compared with the cocaine and heroin epidemics of the recent past, even though opioid analgesics can be just as addictive as heroin.
- August 23, 2013
An Egyptian Tomb Bat near the site of the first known case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome was found to harbor the virus for the disease, report researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity.
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- August 19, 2013
A new study from the Mailman School of Public Health finds that obesity accounts for 18 percent of American deaths.
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- August 9, 2013
Some take vitamin supplements to prevent cancer or to prevent a recurrence and prolong life after a cancer diagnosis. But do these supplements work?
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