Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, called it “really detailed and extensively documented.”
Flavored cigarettes have been banned in the United States for more than a decade—with one glaring exception: menthol cigarettes, which are used at substantially higher rates among Black Americans.
“Over the course of the summer, we started getting a sense of what issues these people were having,” says Ani Nalbandian, MD, a cardiology fellow at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Columbia cancer researchers are working to increase the representation of people of color in cancer clinical trials and decrease the health equity gap, with the help of Stand Up to Cancer.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, does not infect brain cells but can inflict significant neurological damage, according to a new study of dozens of deceased patients.
The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University offered students the opportunity to shadow doctors virtually, sitting in on tele-medicine appointments.
With more patients complaining of lingering and chronic effects from COVID-19, Columbia experts review what’s known and why care for long-haulers requires an interdisciplinary approach.
