Gina Kolata

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• Would You Take a Pill That Prevents Cancer? Probably Not.

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 637
  Gina Kolata points out , once again, that diet and exercise have not been shown to affect breast cancer rates. Massive, well-run observational studies and randomized controlled trials turn up nothing. This finding appears to be unacceptable; popular culture rejects it utterly. Women’s magazines continue to preach ...
  2 days ago

• Would You Take a Pill That Prevents Cancer? Unlikely.

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 139
  Gina Kolata points out , once again, that diet and exercise have not been shown to affect breast cancer rates. Massive, well-run observational studies and randomized controlled trials turn up nothing. This finding appears to be unacceptable; popular culture rejects it utterly. Women’s magazines continue to preach ...
  2 days ago

• NY Times, LA Times: Gene therapy successes

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 565
  Leber’s congenital amaurosis . Say that five times fast. Or try this one: adrenoleukodystrophy . If you’re a movie fan, you might be able the manage the second one: It was the disease in the movie Lorenzo’s Oil . These are among the diseases for which gene therapy has recently shown progress, according to a ...
  1 week ago

• Almost Everybody Has or Will Have Cancer Cells

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 564
  This is Gina Kolata, writing in The New York Times . Cancer cells and precancerous cells are so common that nearly everyone by middle age or old age is riddled with them, said Thea Tlsty, a professor of pathology at the University of California, San Francisco. That was discovered in autopsy studies of people who ...
  1 week ago

• NY Times, others: Dust-up over cancer screening stories

  
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker — Authority: 565
  “We don’t want people to panic,” Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the cancer society, tells Gina Kolata of The New York Times in a front-page story. “But I’m admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• When a Cool-Down Follows the Workout

  
  Well — Authority: 716
  As Gina Kolata explores in her Personal Best column, theres not much science to support the post-exercise cool-down.
  4 weeks ago

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