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 ...

Columbia University today announced the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University. The center will catalyze the ...

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 ...

Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s ...

Many of the things we associate with getting older—aches and pains and memory lapses—are hard to accept and have become stereotypical of what it means to get older. However, as we’re living longer and ...

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate—hair that has already grown out of the follicle does not change ...

“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 ...

When lead gets in the body, it can cause health problems, and children are especially at risk. It’s an issue so serious that on Aug. 17, 2022, New York State Gov. Hochul signed a bill into law that ...

But how often do we need to get up from our chairs? And for how long? Few studies have compared multiple options to come up with the answer most office workers want: What is the least amount of ...

Now a new study from Columbia researchers suggests that metformin is indeed a promising drug that could prevent the progression of prostate cancer, but only for tumors with low levels of NKX3.1, which ...

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, ...

When COVID-19 patients started inundating New York City hospitals in March, Columbia neurologists were ready, thanks to some advanced preparation. “When we saw what was happening in China and Italy, ...