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Older adults in England have experienced significant improvements in health compared to previous generations, researchers at Columbia's Robert N. Butler Aging Center have found.
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The new report addresses the responsible use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and is a call to action for biomedical research to rethink how it uses race and ethnicity.
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The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care can cause significant, ongoing financial hardship, particularly for lower-income families with commercial insurance, a new study shows.
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The center will catalyze research into the complex relationships between climate and health and promote evidence-based policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health.
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- June 27, 2014
Kendrick Cato, PhD, associate research scientist at Columbia Nursing, searches for infection sources in an unlikely place: electronic records.
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- June 24, 2014
A three-day symposium organized by the Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School in concert with Columbia School of Journalism brought together leading experts on aging and journalists who cover the issue.
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- June 23, 2014
A Columbia Nursing study found that eHealth interventions are associated with reductions in risky sexual behaviors and increases in HIV testing among men who have sex with men.
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- June 20, 2014
A Mailman student helped a community health center translate complex health information into accessible writing for its website.
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- June 18, 2014
Two Columbia Public Health professors find that a global health model for reducing maternal mortality has broad health-care benefits.
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- June 17, 2014
In an article published in The Atlantic magazine, noted gerontologist and Mailman School of Public Health Dean Linda Fried discusses aging.
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- June 16, 2014
More than 50 public health schools gathered at Columbia for “A Public Health Approach to Incarceration,” a conference organized by the Mailman School and the Tow Foundation.
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- June 10, 2014
Four CUMC students have been chosen as ICAP’s Next Generation interns with assignments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, and Mozambique.
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- June 6, 2014
CUMC psychiatrists and public health experts discuss the potential health effects of legalized marijuana.
- June 5, 2014
First research to show the link between sudden bereavement and common psychiatric disorders by studying a large national population sample.
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