Recent health and wellness news from across Columbia.
Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds.
Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they get us sick.
The Department of Health and Human Services’s award aims to accelerate innovation supporting living kidney donors and patients.
Natalie Fardian-Melamed was recognized for discovering and engineering ultra-sensitive, light-based nanosensors.
New findings from Columbia University researchers could help physicians decide when to prescribe preventive treatments.
Neurons created in the adult brain hippocampus could be instrumental in preventing major depressive disorder.
The research suggests a new strategy for targeting the disease, the leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S.
A Columbia team modeled how cancer spreads between organs using lab-grown bone and lung tissues.
Columbia researchers have developed a new way to visualize the heart’s electromechanical activity, offering insight into disease.
The findings represents a new path for identifying genes across many complex diseases, as well as strategies for their treatment.
In the years since its inception, the White Coat Ceremony has been adopted by almost all U.S. medical schools.