Health

Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.

Columbia faculty and researchers are working with local communities in New York State to dramatically reduce opioid-related deaths.

As the city takes steps to overhaul its water supply network, government and industry must follow suit.

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an adapted excerpt of The First Cell, by Columbia's Dr.

A Columbia psychiatrist and ethicist addresses the quandaries we face over the changing ways we create children.

While the rate of Eastern Equine Encephalitis is unusually high this year, more worrisome is the link to a warming climate and what it could signal

Columbia physician and Ebola survivor Craig Spencer says community engagement and trust-building are the best tools to combat the epidemic.

A Columbia University study suggests residents not return to several uninhabited islands until areas are thoroughly cleaned and further assessed fo

Columbia professor Sandra Soo-Jin Lee leads a national study on the inclusion of ethnic minorities in genetic studies

Support for aid-in-dying laws has been growing as Maine becomes the eighth state to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medications to terminally ill

University Professor Nabila El-Bassel explains how gender plays a role in the opioid crisis.

Deerfield commits up to $130 million to accelerate drug discovery at Columbia

After leaving the Navy, Brian Ruiz finished college and now graduates from the Mailman School of Public Health with a master's in health management