Health

Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.

As progress against the disease stalls, researchers are looking for new approaches to countering it.

Columbia scientists have found a way to get the immune system to recognize and attack stomach cancer instead of ignoring it.

Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

In the past decade, Michel Sadelain has been at the center of a revolution in the treatment of cancer.

The discovery paves the way for a new type of antidepressant that inhibits the chemical.

Older adults especially benefit from this therapeutic practice, say the authors. 

The outermost brain layer just behind the forehead sustains the most damage from heading. The damage leads to cognitive deficits.

A School of Nursing study showed promising results for helping adolescents with the ailment.

Professor Samuel H. Sternberg was recognized alongside postdocs Yunjia Lai and Viraj Pandya.

In Professor Harris Wang’s lab, synthetic microbes are being developed into therapies for our microbiome.

The biggest research breakthroughs pioneered at Columbia seem more important with each passing year. What could be next?

A liver graft from an altruistic living donor set off a chain of transplants that helped save the lives of three patients.