Craig Spencer, director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at NYP/Columbia, had just received his second coronavirus vaccine dose when he saw news of rioters descending on the Capitol.
A strategic decision-making and team-building exercise for hospital executives—developed at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health—now includes a simulated pandemic.
New images of Wnt, a signaling protein mutated in some cancers, in complex with its specific carrier, reveals atomic-level details of the molecules and a potential new drug target.
Viral load, the amount of virus detected in a PCR nasal swab, can be used to predict patient outcomes and guide quarantine decisions, Daniel Griffin says.
The results suggest that knowing the so-called viral load could help doctors predict a patient’s course, said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease physician at Columbia University in New York.