Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
Geriatrician Ruth Finkelstein, an assistant professor of health policy and management, works on ways to boost the quality of life and health of those at retirement age or older. “It’s time to rethink our view of retirement, which currently falls short,” she says, noting that it isn’t designed for older people who want to stay engaged, active and stimulated.
Columbia has expanded its Sexual Violence Response Center, opening a location in Lerner Hall in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 15 attended by President Lee C. Bollinger, deans, administrators and student peer advocates.
Columbia Health's Sexual Violence Response provides empowering support to survivors and co-survivors of violence and works on prevention of gender-based violence in Columbia community. Step UP! Program facilitates effective training, allowing students to acquire practical strategies and learn how to maintain safety, support survivors, intervene and help others in difficult situations.
On Nov. 11, Dr. Craig Spencer, New York’s first and thus far only diagnosed case of Ebola, was released from Bellevue Hospital Center where his recovery was made possible by expert care.
Just as Florence Nightingale brought professional nursing care to the Crimean War 160 years ago, today’s digitally savvy nurses are bringing health care and preventive medicine into the digital age with the most modern of devices: smartphones and tablets.
On his website, Carl Hart describes himself as a scientist, an activist and an educator, in that order. Now he can add award-winning book author for his widely praised memoir, "High Price."
A study by Columbia researchers has found that children from three school districts in Maine exposed to arsenic in drinking water experienced declines in intelligence.
Columbia’s College of Dental Medicine has joined with the National Dental Association to expand programs to schoolchildren in Upper Manhattan this spring.
A team of researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Weill Cornell Medical College, and Brandeis University has devised a wholly new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease involving the so-called retromer protein complex.
for Astrobiology Magazine Wind and dust conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa can help predict a meningitis epidemic. Determining the role of climate in the spread of certain diseases can assist health officials in “forecasting” epidemics.
In a study published today in the online edition of "Nature," researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) found that a mutation in the bone cells called osteoblasts, which build new bone, causes AML in mice.