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Warning letters from Medicare can safely cut prescribing of a powerful but risky drug, a study found.
The new findings raise the possibility that anticancer drugs could be used to help prevent heart attacks.
Columbia researchers have created mice with hybrid brains—part mouse, part rat—that sense odors with their rat neurons.
A new database offers communities, leaders, and researchers unprecedented access to climate data and cutting-edge models.
Tian Zheng, the Statistics department chair, is developing innovative tools to confront climate change and the opioid epidemic.
Postpartum Medicaid extension legislation should be applauded, while understanding its limitations and seeking more solutions.
Columbia environmental scientist Catherine Ivanovich wants us to understand the impacts of the food we eat.
The discovery could lead to new types of drugs to prevent and treat the disease.
Students, faculty, and staff ventured beyond New York City to witness eclipse totality this week, and showed us what they saw.
Bree Zhang isn’t just a dentist-in-training. She’s a visual artist and musician, too.
A new study suggests that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current will continue to speed up, hastening ice loss.
Columbia biomedical engineers unveiled a groundbreaking new AI tool to study and diagnose heart function.