Dr. Robert Zarr loves to write prescriptions that you don't have to take to the pharmacy. Instead, he sends patients outside to soak in the healing powers of nature, combining the benefits of exercise ...

To get his young patients moving, Dr. Robert Zarr whips out his pad and prescribes a park. And not just any park. One chosen for the child from a... To Make Children Healthier, A Doctor Prescribes A ...

Robert Zarr is walking from his Columbia Heights medical practice toward Meridian Hill Park, talking about what's going on inside his head. If you could see his brain on an MRI, he says, far more ...

Dr. Robert Zarr steps into the patient room and sees a teenage girl. Lately, the 17-year-old has been experiencing repeated panic attacks, giving her so much chest pain that she had to be rushed to ...

The effects of nature are "not enough on people's radar." Photo / Getty Images In January, a 13-year-old patient named Kelssi came to Dr. Robert Zarr's office at Unity Health Care, a community health ...

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When Dr. Robert Zarr wanted a young patient to get more exercise, he gave her an unusual prescription: Get off the bus to school earlier. "She has to take a bus to the train, then a train to another ...