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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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New faculty who joined VP&S in April and June include an emergency medicine doctor and a radiologist who has helped translate state-of-the-art imaging techniques.
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Latest News
- May 19, 2014
The endowed chair is Ob/Gyn's fourth added in the past three years and the 16th for the College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2012.
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- May 16, 2014
Profiles of students receiving MD degrees in 2014 from Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons.
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- May 16, 2014
People diagnosed with celiac disease are not at increased risk of melanoma, researchers at CUMC and Karolinska Institutet have found.
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- May 14, 2014
First students graduate from an innovative program that combines medical education in New York City with clinical education in rural upstate New York.
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- May 13, 2014
Racial disparities in stroke are due primarily to higher rates and poorer treatment of hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol among black Americans.
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- May 12, 2014
Two genes together drive the most lethal forms of prostate cancer; could lead to diagnostic test and new treatments.
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- May 9, 2014
The effect of marijuana on the teenage brain is an essential piece of information missing in the debate over legalizing the drug, says Jeffrey Lieberman.
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- May 7, 2014
A long-overlooked form of neuron-to-neuron communication plays an essential role in brain development, according to a new study of Drosophila.
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- May 2, 2014
New, more definitive evidence implicates camels in the ongoing outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
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- May 1, 2014
Columbia neuroscientist Richard Axel was elected to the Royal Society, the national academy of science in the U.K.
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