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Gina Kolata

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Medical Reporter at The New York Times

Medical reporter for the New York Times and author of six books. The latest, Mercies in Disguise, will be published in March of 2017.

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  • 5 days ago | nytimes.com | Gina Kolata

    A study found that women could switch drugs without waiting for scans showing cancer progression, which improved their quality of life. Breast cancer patients whose tumors have spread to other parts of their bodies live from scan to scan. Is their treatment working? Or will they learn their cancer is growing again?

  • 1 week ago | elespectador.com | Gina Kolata

    Los investigadores creen que la diferencia de la estatura tiene que ver con un gen llamado SHOX. Audio generado con IA de GoogleUn grupo de investigadores estudió los datos de un millón de personas y halló pruebas de que un gen de la estatura compartido por ambos sexos se amplifica en los hombres. Los hombres son más altos que las mujeres, por un promedio de 13 centímetros. Pero, ¿por qué?

  • 1 week ago | startribune.com | Gina Kolata

    Every Wednesday, Brawley, a prostate cancer and screening specialist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, sees men with cancers similar to Biden's. Many of his patients have been diligent about regular prostate screening and yet, he said, they have advanced disease. He said he's seen a half-dozen men like that in the past year alone. "How the hell did I get metastatic disease?" he said they ask him. "Whose fault is this?" The answer, Brawley tells them, is that it is no one's fault.

  • 2 weeks ago | infobae.com | Gina Kolata

    Height (Stature)Women and GirlsMen and BoysChromosomesGenetics and HeredityResearchProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUn grupo de investigadores estudió los datos de un millón de personas y halló pruebas de que un gen de la estatura compartido por ambos sexos se amplifica en los hombres. Los hombres son más altos que las mujeres, por un promedio de 13 centímetros. Pero, ¿por qué?

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Gina Kolata

    Un grupo de investigadores estudió los datos de un millón de personas y halló pruebas de que un gen de la estatura compartido por ambos sexos se amplifica en los hombres. Los hombres son más altos que las mujeres, por un promedio de 13 centímetros. Pero, ¿por qué? No es una inevitabilidad genética: hay muchas especies en el árbol de la vida en las que las hembras superan a los machos.

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How doctors think. Can Chat teach medical students? Harvard is trying to find out https://t.co/VS6U8FYMHB