Glasses that block blue light may help people with insomnia get more sleep, a new CUMC study has found.

As the organic food sections in our grocery stores continue to expand, you may find yourself wondering if you should be buying organic foods instead of conventional foods.

Jordan Orange, MD, PhD, has joined Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons as the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics. Orange, who will also ...

Columbia researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells.

Dr. Jacques Ambrose describes the symptoms and treatments for depersonalization disorder in the wake of recent news about "SNL" cast member Bowen Yang.

Columbia neurologists found that a test used to measure Alzheimer's disease proteins in spinal fluid can be used to determine whether patients have the disease or other forms of dementia.

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 ...

Decision-making accuracy can be improved by postponing the onset of a decision by a mere fraction of a second, according to CUMC researchers.

Unlike type 2 diabetes, type 1 is an autoimmune disease. Even people in their 70s and 80s can develop type 1, when the autoimmune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the body’s own insulin-making ...

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 ...

How is social media impacting young people’s mental health? There are youth, especially those with social anxiety or depression, who may have a tendency to spend more time online and reduce their real ...

Surgical sterilization rates among women increased in the United States after a 2022 Supreme Court ruling (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health) overturned the constitutional right to abortion, found ...