“Compared to non-users, marijuana users had 27% higher levels of iron in their blood, and 21% higher levels in their urine,” said lead author Tiffany Sanchez of the Mailman School of Public Health.
A mechanism used by adult zebrafish to create new neurons in the brain is dormant in people; reawakening it might repair our brains and slow Alzheimer’s disease.
A study led by Columbia neurosurgeons has found that MRI-guided laser ablation is a viable treatment that can provide lasting seizure control for people with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.
Editor's Note: The Columbia University research referenced here was led by Seth Prins, an assistant professor of epidemiology and sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Grants management expert Jaime Rubin, PhD, is sharing her expertise in Kosovo to help the government develop systems and programs to best support the country's researchers.
The researchers referenced here are Yousin Suh, the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Reproductive Sciences, and Zev Williams, the Wendy D. Havens Associate Professor of Women's Health.
“We’re hoping to have better models and better prediction on the street level,” said Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, a professor of environmental health at Columbia University and a TEMPO collaborator.
“There’s been a sense that more patients are asking about it, and ultimately pursuing it, but there wasn’t good data,” said Dr. Jason Wright of Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
