Health & Fitness

The graves at the edge of the orphanage tell a story of despair. The rough planks in the cracked earth are painted with the names of children, most of them dead in the 1990s. That was before the HIV drugs arrived.

Racial and ethnic inequities in diabetes have been established following gestational diabetes, but these inequities are substantial and have been an overlooked facet of maternal health equity, according to a new study by epidemiologist Teresa Janevic, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

This week, the Columbia Mailman School welcomed 802 master’s and doctoral students with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds. They come from 42 states and 39 countries, the largest portion of international students to date, representing 38 percent of the new cohort.

My years of reporting on the dialysis industry taught me many things. Besides learning more about arcane Medicare regulations than I ever thought possible, I also learned about what it was like to need dialysis. 

The Biden administration is rushing to finalize a $1.1 billion bridge program to provide free COVID-19 vaccines for uninsured and underinsured people in time for the release of new boosters, report Adam Cancryn and David Lim at Politico.