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In talks, she relates it all to the bigger picture. One of the triumphs of medicine is not our ability to cure as much as our ability to extend life, to convert acute death invoking problems, like heart attacks or hiv, into chronic medical conditions, treatable with medicine and supportive care. It was on one of my trips to goodwill that when i was browsing the book section, i stumbled upon flu. Gina kolata is a science reporter for the new york times and is the author of flu fsg. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse.
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Edited by awardwinning writer gina kolata, this eyeopening collection of 150 articles from the new york times archive charts the developing scientific insights and breakthroughs into diagnosing and treating conditions like typhoid, tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes, alzheimers, and aids, and chronicles the struggles to treat mental illness and the enormous success of vaccines. New york times reporter gina kolata approaches the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed tens of millions worldwide, through the eyes of scientists trying to discover what made it so virulent. Book giveaway for the new york times book of medicine. Unlike the other books that were visibly used and dog eared, this book seemed almost untouched. More than 150 years of reporting on the evolution of medicine 3. Join awardwinning new york times science journalist gina kolata as she discusses storytelling and its role in science journalism. Big and informative, the new york times book of mathematics gathers more than 110 articles written from 1892 to 2010 that cover statistics, coincidences, chaos theory, famous problems, cryptography, computers, and many other topics. Nov 10, 2017 gina kolata in the ny times provides both an excellent summary and context. She studied molecular biology on the graduate level at m.
Of more than 3,000 studies published from 2003 through 2017 in jama and the lancet, and from 2011 through 2017 in the new england journal of medicine, more than one of 10 amounted to a medical. A story of hope, a familys genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them at nsu. A story of hope, a familys genetic destiny, and the science that saved them. As a consequence, millions of healthy people think they have a. Jul 02, 2019 new york times science writer gina kolata usually gets it right. The quest for truth about exercise and health farrar, straus and giroux, 2003, a new book by ny times science reporter gina kolata, was called to my attention by david walsh, md, of the medical college of wisconsin. For whom the bell tolls end of life concerns affect more. Gina kolata, the new york times company april 22, 2020 11. Jan 07, 2008 reporter gina kolata covers health and medicine for the times and writes personal best, a biweekly column on fitness. This week, as readers begin the hard business of keeping new years resolutions, ms. The new science of weight loss and the myths and realities of dieting.
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