The EQUIP Center for Learning Health System Science will support researchers working to improve patient safety, particularly among groups that experience persistent health care disparities.
Columbia's HHT Center for Excellence is working to increase awareness of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, a rare condition that causes frequent nosebleeds and more serious complications.
While most hospitals have policies to prevent health care-associated infections, clinicians often fail to follow the guidelines established to prevent these infections.
To combat the rise of obesity in teens, physicians and other medical professionals have been promoting physical education and healthier diets for children. But for some teens, these are not enough.
In honor of National Healthy Weight Week, we spoke with Dr. Judith Korner, Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC, about how to determine if you are at a healthy weight and, if you're overweight, what to do to get healthy.
Hospitals units combining the compassion of hospice and technical care of medical-surgical units may provide efficient, cost-effective assistance to patients with advanced chronic illness or terminal disease.
Drs. Rudolph Leibel and Michael Rosenbaum are members of a multi-center collaboration that plans to test competing hypotheses of obesity and weight gain.