Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
Helen Ouyang’s articles bring to light difficult societal issues that people often don’t like to think about. This week in The New York Times Magazine she writes about hospice homes that support terminally ill children and their families.
“It’s so important to me that I give back to the community of older adults who have supported me so much throughout my life," said Anna Bryan, a Columbia College graduate who will be combining music and geriatric medicine.
Charles Branas of the Mailman School of Public Health says preventing the next school shooting will require evidence, conviction, and strength in numbers
Malo Hutson's research is on the social, political and economic side of urban planning.
It's tick season. Here's what Brian Fallon, the director of Columbia’s Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Research Center, has to say about combating chronic Lyme disease.
National Institute on Drug Abuse grant will bring the School of Social Work together with partner universities to work in 15 counties across New York State.
A Columbia-led study finds disruptions in the body’s gut microbes triggered by early-life adversity are linked to brain function
The Asian longhorned tick, found in Staten Island last summer, is capable of transmitting disease and is spreading far faster than previously known. Public health officials are particularly concerned because the tick is notorious for its ability to quickly replicate itself.
Columbia University and Nimbus Therapeutics have successfully determined the 3D structure of human ATP-citrate lyase, which plays a key role in cancer cell proliferation and other cellular processes.
The faculty practice of the School of Nursing is developing a coordinated care program for the mental and physical health of LGBT patients in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
This year—or indeed any year—there may be some especially difficult conversations if the discussion turns to politics. Peter T. Coleman, director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia’s Teachers College, offers advice.