Keeping children masked and separated is necessary during the pandemic but could undermine their ability to learn how to fight pathogens, write Columbia's Donna Farber, PhD, and Thomas Connors, MD.
A new Columbia study suggests that malfunctioning endosomes—a central trafficking station inside neurons—are commonly involved in the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease.
“I haven’t even thought about how I am today,” said Dr. Susannah Hills, a pediatric head and neck surgeon at Columbia University. “I can’t think of the last time somebody asked me that question.”
This year’s Crown Awards video celebrated our front line heroes—physicians, researchers, staff, students, and trainees—who have responded so valiantly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The different levels of efficacy with two different dosing regimens is scientifically intriguing,” says Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia.
Columbia researchers have found a potential neurobiological mechanism for hallucinations and delusions that fits within the hierarchical model of psychosis and can explain their clinical presentation.
“We need to be ahead of the curve and not be quite so slow in acting on our information,” said Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiology professor at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Easy accessability to telehealth may reduce nursing home residents’ isolation, maintain proper distancing parameters, and allow for timely care delivery, researchers at Columbia Nursing say.
Cannabis vaporizer brands use Instagram to market their products by posting images that appeal to young people and tagging popular social media influencers, a new study from Mailman has found.
