Wednesday, 6 August 2008

N.Y. Research Team Discovers How Antidepressants And Cocaine Interact With Brain Cell Targets

� In a first, scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia University Medical Center 24% in Qatar, the Medical College is the first in the U.S. to offer its M.D. degree oversea. Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances -- including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the deductive reasoning of penicillin, the low gear successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical visitation of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, the first indication of bone marrow's critical role in tumour growth, and most late, the world's first successful use of deep wit stimulation to treat a minimally-conscious brain-injured patient.



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Columbia University Medical Center provides international leadership in basic, preclinical and clinical research, in medical and health sciences education, and in patient care. The medical middle trains future leaders and includes the dedicated knead of many physicians, scientists, public health professionals, dentists, and nurses at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied inquiry centers and institutions. Established in 1767, Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons was the first foundation in the country to grant the M.D. degree and is now among the most selective medical schools in the land. Columbia University Medical Center is nursing home to the largest medical research enterprise in New York City and department of State and unitary of the largest in the United States.



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