“This receptor plays such a critical role in physiological function that you can’t just block it, and if you do, there are all sorts of adverse events,” says co-lead study author Margaret Haney.
By strengthening surrounding muscles, tai chi also reduces strain on joints, said Dr. Amanda Sammut, the chief of rheumatology at Harlem Hospital and a professor of medicine at Columbia University.
The play “Love + Science" tells the story of two gay Columbia University medical students who meet while working in a retrovirology lab in the early 1980s.
In a trial conducted in Columbia's Cannabis Research Laboratory, a candidate drug reduced the consumption of cannabis among a small group of daily users.
In recognition of Juneteenth, Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s African, Black and Caribbean Employee Resource Group held an outdoor festival on Haven Plaza.
“The fact that this (Chicago) outbreak did not spread … shows that we’re in a very different place than a year ago,” said Dr. Jason Zucker, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University.
“Your immune response likes to react to what it’s seen before,” said David Ho, a professor of microbiology and immunology and director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Columbia University.
