Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
When Irwin Redlener was a young doctor, he was certain that child poverty would end in his lifetime. “It was impossible for me to think that that would not happen,” Redlener said. Yet with child poverty as intractable a problem as it was nearly 50 years ago, he remains committed to the battle against it.
Anil Lalwani wants to deliver medicine directly into the inner ear, the best way to treat ear-related disorders.
Each Thursday at 9:30 a.m., Dr. Sylvia Preston Griffiths arrives at the pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. She dons a long white coat with her full name embroidered on it in blue and places her stethoscope in her pocket.
For a sixth grade science project, Elise Bixby wanted to test the effectiveness of her grandmother’s osteoporosis medicine on bone density. She carefully put chicken bones into separate Styrofoam cups, with and without the medication, and entered the county science fair.
Columbia was one of 12 universities designated by the War Department to create a naval section of the Student Army Training Corps. More than 300 students went through the program and were deployed as naval officers.
When Richard Gamarra was 16, a gun fell out of his backpack during class at a Catholic high school in Queens and he was arrested. It was the beginning of a 12-year journey in and out of prison that ultimately led to Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he will earn a master’s degree this month.
Owen Lewis is nothing if not prolific. He wrote poetry and novels as a child and young man, and at age 23 created a multimedia poetry/music work called New Pictures at an Exhibition, which was reviewed by The New York Times in 1972.
Dr. Stephen S. Morse is a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center and an expert in global and public health. He cooperates with scientists world wide on research and the development of early warning and response systems for the prevention of infectious diseases. His book, Emerging Viruses was selected by American Scientist for its list of “Top 100 Science Books of the 20th Century.”
