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should we pay drs to take patients for a walk?nytimes.com/2012/05/22/hea… 12:28 PM May 21st via web
better to start competitive running when you are older, or in your youth? well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/can… 10:18 AM May 15th via web
what killed Lenin? Medical mystery nytimes.com/2012/05/08/hea… 10:03 AM May 7th via web
True of false? poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts and that's why kids there are fat nytimes.com/2012/04/18/hea… 9:35 AM Apr 18th via web
Expert answers questions about health care act and its future. nytimes.com/2012/04/03/hea… 12:40 PM Apr 2nd via web
can genetic analysis predict your medical future? nytimes.com/2012/04/03/hea… 11:02 AM Apr 2nd via web
She beat met in the Philly half marathon last year. Couldn't believe her time! nytimes.com/2012/04/02/spo… 9:25 AM Apr 2nd via web
I FINALLY ran a marathon. well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/how… 7:07 AM Mar 20th via web
eat ro run? Maybe well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/wor… 4:10 AM Feb 22nd via web
imagine a scientist ... nytimes.com/2012/02/14/sci… 9:17 AM Feb 14th via web
strange path of Alzheimer's through the brain nytimes.com/2012/02/02/hea… 7:06 AM Feb 2nd via web
brown fat can act like a furnace, burning calories nytimes.com/2012/01/25/hea… 11:35 AM Jan 24th via web
can dutasteride slow or stop prostate cancer?nytimes.com/2012/01/24/hea… 8:36 AM Jan 24th via web
fine line between enough exercise and to much well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/per… 12:56 PM Jan 17th via web
An accidental biologist tells how it happened nytimes.com/2012/01/03/sci… 10:22 AM Jan 3rd via web
the pitfalls of gps watches, nytimes.com/2011/12/20/hea… 6:16 PM Dec 19th, 2011 via web
should "cancer" get a new name?nytimes.com/2011/11/22/hea… 1:12 PM Nov 21st, 2011 via web
is there a perfect way to run? nytimes.com/2011/11/15/hea… 7:27 AM Nov 15th, 2011 via web
@DrMGlover They did. The subjects exdercised at moerate intensity for 30 min 5 days/week 5:51 AM Oct 30th, 2011 via web in reply to DrMGlover
why change cancer screening guidelines now?nytimes.com/2011/10/30/hea… 5:50 AM Oct 30th, 2011 via web

Name Gina Kolata
Location New York, New York
Bio Medical reporter for the New York Times and author of five books, the most recent of which is Rethinking Thin