Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
Robert Shapiro is a professor of political science, who specializes in American politics, especially public opinion and political behavior, political psychology and political leadership.
Here’s his view on the issues raised in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 opinion on the Affordable Care Act.
One in eight people who suffer a heart attack or other acute coronary event experience clinically significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a meta-analysis of 24 studies led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers.
On June 8, a Head Start ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the opening of a brand-new space for the program.
Modern science is immensely complex, but Professor Virginia Cornish had a simple idea for solving a big problem. The problem was cholera, which infects about four million people annually and kills at least 100,000, most of them children under age 5.
According to a new study, children exposed to high levels of the common air pollutant naphthalene are at increased risk for chromosomal aberrations (CAs), which have been previously associated with cancer. These include chromosomal translocations, a potentially more harmful and long-lasting subtype of CAs.
A novel robotic platform for minimally invasive single-port surgery that they say is the world’s smallest in required diameter (∅15 mm) that can enter the body while enabling dual-arm-dexterous operation, 3-D visualization, and automated instrument tracking.
Troubled by the dearth of health care services in poor communities, Manmeet Kaur started City Health Works, a nonprofit aimed at combating high rates of preventable chronic conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Just four days before Valeria Silva Merea boarded a plane bound for medical school in New York, she was in Beijing swimming in the 2008 Olympic Games.
Text message reminders to parents about flu vaccinations may help boost the number of children vaccinated, according to researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
A study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health finds that pregnant women in New York City exposed to higher concentrations of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, were more than twice as likely to have children who were obese by age 7 compared with women with lower levels of exposure.
Researchers predict that without changes to eating and activity, more than one in five young people will be obese by 2020
When a psychiatrist sets out to write a diet book, he doesn’t have a slimmer waistline in mind. Drew Ramsey, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and coauthor of The Happiness Diet (Rodale, 2011), believes good health and happiness are achieved when the brain is consistently fed all the nutrients it needs for optimal cognitive and emotional functioning.