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Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Earns National Cancer Institute Renewal

August 26, 2020

The Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center has been redesignated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the NCI, the federal government’s principal agency for cancer research, care, and training.

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Campus News
CUIMC Update - Aug. 24, 2020

August 24, 2020

View the CUIMC Update, a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees.

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CUIMC Update
The Fine Line Between Choice and Confusion in Health Care

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The New York Times

August 24, 2020

According to a systematic review by Michael Sparer, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, studies do not find much cost savings to Medicaid programs stemming from all this choice.
CUIMC Enhances Facilities and Operations to Keep Campus Community Safe

August 22, 2020

Safety is CUIMC's top priority as our community starts to return to campus. Read up on revised procedures, self-checkpoints, and other changes to operations designed to keep our community healthy.

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Campus News
The Complicated Ethics of Keeping a Covid-19 Patient Breathing

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The New Yorker

August 22, 2020

Susannah Hills, an airway surgeon, is part of a tracheostomy team at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The team, when it formed at the start of the pandemic, decided to avoid early trachs.
An Infectious Disease Expert on How to Safely Ride the Subway

August 21, 2020

Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, shows how to ride the subway safely during the coronavirus pandemic and explains what the MTA is doing behind the scenes to keep the subway clean and prevent the spread of disease.

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Infectious Diseases
How to Handle Separation Anxiety Meltdowns in Kids

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The New York Times

August 20, 2020

Finding opportunities for children to exercise their “brave muscles” and safely practice being away from their parents is especially tough in quarantine, said Paula Yanes-Lukin, Ph.D.
Study Examines Treatment of COVID-19 in Cancer Patients

August 20, 2020

A study of cancer patients with COVID-19 finds mortality is significantly higher than in the general population and Black patients are half as likely to receive the antiviral remdesivir.

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Cancer
Columbia Nursing Faculty Inducted into American Academy of Nursing

August 20, 2020

The American Academy of Nursing has selected three faculty members—Stephen Ferrara, Jingjing Shang, and Billy Caceres—to join its 2020 Class of Fellows.

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Nursing
Coping With the Pandemic: Turning the Mind Toward Acceptance

August 20, 2020

Two Columbia psychologists write that practicing acceptance of our current reality—not toxic positivity—is a key way to cope with the mental health effects of the pandemic.

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Infectious Diseases

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