The health of donated human lungs judged too poor for transplantation can be recovered using a cross-circulation technique designed by biomedical engineers at Columbia University.
Based on their experience treating COVID-19, Columbia physicians have assembled critical information about the coronavirus’s effects on organs outside the lungs.
Editor's Note: Director of global health in emergency medicine Craig Spencer sees a pattern of a deliberate undermining of science and public health by the Trump administration.
A video that chronicles the medical school’s response to COVID-19 illustrates how the entire Columbia community came together to confront the most challenging health crisis of our time.
A new study compares different NYC reopening scenarios and suggests that keeping all industries, including schools, at 50% capacity may keep COVID-19 at relatively low levels through May 2021.
Mailman researchers estimate that the overall COVID-19 fatality rate in New York City is 1.45%, twice that of estimates from other countries, and older adults have the greatest mortality risk.
With high precision, a new algorithm predicts which patients treated for traumatic injuries in the emergency department will later develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to Dr. Zev Williams, who developed a saliva test for COVID-19 that yields results in 30 minutes, we need a paradigm shift in the way we go about testing.
