A new study led by Columbia University researchers projects a substantial rise in uterine cancer incidence and deaths in the United States over the next three decades, with a disproportionate impact ...

Addictive use of social media, video games, or mobile phones—but not total screen time—is associated with worse mental health among preteens, a new study by researchers at Columbia's Vagelos College ...

Since its inception, the Gerstner Scholars Program has become Columbia’s premier faculty development program, serving as a model for cultivating early-career physician-scientists. Including this ...

CUIMC CELEBRATES acknowledges faculty, staff, and students at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who receive major research grants, who earn prestigious honors, who are elected to honorary ...

As a graduate student, Sternberg worked with Doudna to develop one of the earliest CRISPR-based tools. Since joining Columbia in 2018, Sternberg has broadened his search, looking for additional ...

We’ve all heard that it’s best to brush our teeth after meals. But in some cases, did you know it is best to hold off brushing, at least temporarily? “We definitely recommend holding off on brushing ...

“Cannabis is a pharmacologically complex plant, with constituents that have the potential for producing both medical benefit and abuse,” says Margaret Haney, PhD, professor of neurobiology in ...

NEW YORK, NY (August 21, 2014) — Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain “pruning” process during ...

Nosebleeds usually come from the area of the front of the nasal septum known as the Kiesselbach’s plexus, where a number of arterial branches converge. The vessels keep the area well supplied with ...

About the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit ...

An experimental drug first tried at Columbia University Irving Medical Center as a last-ditch effort to help a 25-year-old woman with juvenile ALS is now being tested in ALS patients in a global, ...

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can ...