“I definitely have seen more patients requesting to go flat after mastectomy,” says Roshni Rao, chief of breast surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.
Dani Dumitriu, who oversees research on pandemic-era maternal and child well-being, says that society could see a threefold increase in the number of babies needing referrals for early intervention.
But the South Africa wave was not as large as the nation’s previous waves, and deaths did not rise as sharply, said Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Columbia University.
Rebecca Muhle, Jennifer Small-Saunders, Neil Vasan, and Peter Yim will receive three years of funding from the Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Scholars Program to support their research.
The widening gap may also be due to a shift in party base, said Dr. Peter Muennig, professor of health policy and management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Multiple societal transformations are needed to ensure aging societies worldwide are poised to thrive by 2050, says a new report from the Commission for a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity.
