Editor's Note: Rita Charon is chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dean Lorraine Frazier visited leading medical institutions in Beijing to discuss expanding student exchange programs and equipping students to provide care in a globalized health care environment.
The center will organize and stimulate research on the human exposome—the cumulative measure of environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses.
Determining an accurate latency period is difficult, according to Lyall A. Gorenstein, a thoracic surgeon and lung cancer expert at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
The study suggests that the Dobbs decision affected not just abortion access, but “decisions women are making about contraception as well,” said Xiao Xu, the study’s lead author.
Columbia researchers found an increase in surgical sterilization among women after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The "StreetTalk" method—deployed by Mailman researchers to study energy insecurity—could change the way qualitative research is conducted and publicized while maintaining rigorous standards.
Lewis Silverman, the new director of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation, is working to minimize the aftereffects of treatment to ensure the highest quality cure possible.
