Using a new technique that uncovers the hidden tricks cancer cells use to resist immunotherapy, Columbia and MIT researchers have discovered why some melanoma patients do not respond to the therapy.
The EDC is expected to announce that a team from Columbia University, led by Dr. David Ho, is the first awardee in a continuing competition to develop a point-of-care or at-home Covid-19 test.
A new study found a strong association in the U.S. between jail incarceration and death rates from infectious diseases, chronic lower respiratory disease, drug use, and suicide.
People who took statins to lower cholesterol were about 50% less likely to die if hospitalized for COVID-19, a retrospective study by Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian physicians has found.
Spread of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in the New York City region that shares worrisome similarities with other recent variants has been identified by scientists at Columbia University.
“As doctors, we need to ask those who come to us: ‘Tell me about yourself,’” explained Dr. Rita Charon, who founded Columbia University’s pioneering narrative medicine program in 2000.
While the majority of patients were found in neighborhoods close to the hospital, there were several cases scattered throughout the metropolitan area, said Dr. David Ho, a co-leader of the study.
