News Related to: Annual VP&S Awards Ceremony
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Program will help kids Recognize Stroke Signs
In early 2017, Dr. Olajide Williams’ innovative Hip Hop Stroke program was offered to hospitals in New York State. As reported...
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Stopping statins after stroke may increase second-stroke risk
The new results jibe with previous research, said Dr. Joshua Willey, who is a specialist in vascular neurology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
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Are leg and foot cramps waking you up at night? You’re not alone.
Patients who had begun using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for sleep apnea would volunteer to him that their nighttime cramps had gone away. Westwood and his colleagues...
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Welcome New Faculty!
New Clinicians and Basic Scientists Join Columbia Neurology
The Department of Neurology is pleased to welcome several new faculty members to both our clinical and basic science programs.
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Community Health Worker Stroke Prevention Program Celebrates First Class of Graduates
The Community Health Worker Stroke Prevention program (CHW), led by Dr. Olajide Williams, celebrated its first class of graduates this week at the CUMC Faculty Club. CHW empowers communities to...
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ColumbiaDoctors Neurologists Named to NYMag “Best Doctors 2017”
ColumbiaDoctors Neurologists Named to New York Magazine's “BestDoctors 2017” Issue
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More Millennials Are Having Strokes
A Scientific American analysis finds this trend differs based on where one lives
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Parkinson’s Is Partly An Autoimmune Disease, Study Finds
First direct evidence that abnormal protein in Parkinson’s disease triggers immune response.
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Deficits in Cellular Recycling May Be Key in Better Understanding Parkinson’s Disease
“It’s a time of tremendous revolution in Parkinson’s disease,” says Un J. Kang, MD, in a short video titled, “...
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Smell Test May Sniff Out Oncoming Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
Sight and hearing get all the glory, but the often overlooked and underappreciated sense of smell—or problems with it—is a subject of rapidly growing interest among scientists and clinicians who...
