A transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons gave a young man with cystic fibrosis new hope with a triple-organ transplant.
A new class of Velocity Fellows will receive seed funding from the Herbert irving Comprehensive Cancer Center for innovative early-stage cancer research.
Says Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health: “Things change certainly from month to month, and even from week to week."
"The familiar feels safe, and the unfamiliar always carries a little bit of anxiety," says Paul S. Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry, medicine, and law at Columbia University.
Columbia physicians Sidney Hankerson and Natalie Moise discuss how racism can influence a patient's depressive symptoms and make the case for improving racial equity in clinics and communities.
"ECT is a very effective treatment," said Dr. Joshua Berman of Columbia University, who was not involved in the study. "And though it's not risk-free, it is generally safe."
Most of the heart and immunologic problems seen in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C)—a condition linked to COVID—were gone within a few months, Columbia researchers have found.
