Gina Kolata
@ginakolata
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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A new way to kill cancer cells. Use the proteins a cancer needs to grow and rewire them so the cells self destruct
nytimes.com/2023/07/26/hea…
nytimes.com/2023/07/26/hea…
www.nytimes.com Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct (Published 2023) Researchers at Stanford devised a strange new molecule that could lead to drugs that arm genes and make cancers work against themselves. How doctors think. Can Chat teach medical students? Harvard is trying to find out
nytimes.com/2023/07/22/hea…
nytimes.com/2023/07/22/hea…
www.nytimes.com A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis. (Published 2023) At a medical school in Boston, instructors are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think like doctors. It can be hard to admit you're taking Wegovy
nytimes.com/2023/06/14/hea…
nytimes.com/2023/06/14/hea…
www.nytimes.com New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming (Published 2023) Wegovy and other drugs expose a social tension between a quest to medicate illness and a stigmatizing belief that obese people lack sufficient willpower to lose weight. It can be hard for anyone to find words of compassion. But, for some doctors, a solution is to ask a chatbot for help.
nytimes.com/2023/06/12/hea…
nytimes.com/2023/06/12/hea…
www.nytimes.com When Doctors Use a Chatbot to Improve Their Bedside Manner (Published 2023) Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients.