Columbia’s chief of pediatric critical care and hospital medicine, Hülya Bayır, MD, is researching ways to protect brain tissue and prevent disability or death, after a child suffers a head injury.
Father-daughter team Drs. Natasha and Rudolph Leibel work in parallel at the forefront of science and medicine to improve the treatment of patients with diabetes and obesity.
Columbia's Jocelyn Brown, MD, is among a small number of pediatricians in the US trained to evaluate potential child abuse patients, and her goal is not to find abuse but to protect the child.
After a nationwide search, the Department of Pediatrics announces the appointment of Patrisha Woolard, MD, PhD as pediatric residency program director at Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Columbia’s researchers have opened a trial of a noninvasive, focused ultrasound approach to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling higher concentrations of an effective drug to enter the brain.
Our state-of-the-art, 17-bed Infant Cardiac Unit is dedicated to infants up to three months old who undergo surgery for complex congenital heart disease. It is the first of its kind in the world.
Columbia researchers are working to determine the prevalence of autoimmune diabetes with a monogenic cause and the factors that can identify those most likely to have it.
Monkeypox is in the headlines, and the number of cases appears to be rising. What do parents need to know about the virus? Should they be worried that their children might become infected?
most parechovirus infections are mild, but newborns and infants younger than three months old are at increased risk of seizures, encephalitis, and meningitis, says Dr. Cecilia Mo.