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New faculty who joined VP&S in September include a dual-trained cardiac and vascular surgeon and a radiologist who researches the implementation of artificial intelligence into breast imaging.
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New faculty who recently joined VP&S include hospitalists, a doctor at the new ColumbiaDoctors Lincoln Center location, and an emergency medicine doctor also board-certified in sports medicine.
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People who donate their bodies to medical school anatomy courses provide an unparalleled training opportunity for future physicians.
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Virginia Apgar, creator of the Apgar Score, made contributions beyond the score that has been used for seven decades to assess the health of newborns.
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- March 14, 2016
Washington Heights natives and first-year P&S students say that support from faculty, the community, and family have made Columbia feel like home.
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- March 11, 2016
Researchers have found that treatment with very low doses of a dopamine-1 receptor (D1R) agonist was not effective in reducing the cognitive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
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- March 9, 2016
Columbia steps up efforts to explore the microbiome with a new working group and a core facility.
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- March 7, 2016
P&S biologists are probing the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria to uncover new ways to restore the drugs' effectiveness.
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- February 25, 2016
Columbia’s Cochlear Implant Music Engineering Group is trying to reengineer and simplify music to be more enjoyable for listeners with cochlear implants.
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- February 25, 2016
Scientists have developed a new optical technique to study how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that only a small portion of synapses—the connections between cells that control brain activity—may be active at any given time.
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- February 24, 2016
Women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have better survival rates than men at one year, according to a new study from Columbia researchers.
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- February 23, 2016
Columbia Aging Center launches a new seminar series on basic cellular aging processes.
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- February 12, 2016
A new mouse model of ALS developed by Columbia neuroscientists will help researchers learn why the disease kills motor neurons.
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- February 10, 2016
P&S student, Ashley White-Stern, talks about her non-traditional path toward medical school and involvement in student and academic affairs.
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