Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
Marcos Rocha, Jr., grew up in Spanish Harlem, but went halfway around the world with the Marines before he got to the University. Over the past several years, the son of El Salvadoran and Brazilian immigrants has done a combat deployment in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan.
Some of the same key survival traits that have kept us alive for thousands of generations are killing us today.
Wendy Chung realized in medical school that someone would need to know what to do with all that information gleaned from sequencing the human genome—so she focused on acquiring the skills to find genes and treat genetic diseases.
A 20-month-old girl suffering from a rare neurodegenerative disease was diagnosed and successfully treated in a case that exemplifies the potential of precision medicine.