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Twenty years ago, when AIDS was devastating communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Columbia's Wafaa El-Sadr created an organization to save lives in some of the continent’s hardest-hit countries.
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Meet nine graduate students in the Mailman School's Climate and Health Program, the first such program in a school of public health, and learn how they are fighting the threat of climate change.
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A cost-effectiveness study led by a Columbia medical student suggests liquid biopsies are not yet up to the task of screening for colon cancer.
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Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, was named interim dean of the Columbia Climate School in July 2023.
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- September 5, 2012
David Brenner, PhD, DSc, discusses three aspects of radiation and CT scans—quality control, training, and overuse—that urgently need addressing.
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- August 30, 2012
Mailman professor Claire Wang and colleagues developed the Caloric Calculator to help policymakers meet goals for addressing childhood obesity.
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- August 7, 2012
Avian flu jumped from birds to aquatic mammals and was responsible for a pneumonia outbreak that struck harbor seals in New England
- August 2, 2012
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a mechanism that can give energy-storing white fat some of the beneficial characteristics of energy-burning brown fat. The findings, based on studies of mice and of human fat tissue, could lead to new strategies for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. The study was published today in the online edition of the journal Cell.
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- July 31, 2012
A study found that educational experience was a strong predictor of cognitive decline risk across groups.
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- June 26, 2012
Prenatal exposure to ubiquitous household chemical in vinyl flooring can increase a child’s risk for developing eczema.
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- May 11, 2012
Drs. Rudy Leibel and Michael Rosenbaum discuss the biology of weight regulation in this HBO documentary on obesity.
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