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  • Researchers describe controversial study of surgeon training

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    Public concern surrounding residents’ work hours led the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to impose restrictions in 2003 and again in 2011. As reported in JAMA Surgery, the new Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) Trial involved residents from 117 training programs. In all the participating programs, in accordance with…

  • Health at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show — What to Expect

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    At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which begins next week on January 4, 2016, we'll see a growing array of shiny new things to whet the appetite of car lovers, audiophiles, and videogame addicts. But the fastest-growing area of real estate in the CES footprint is digital health, where at the Sands Convention Center…

  • Teen smokers may be hard-wired to crave cigarettes

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    By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Teen smokers might crave nicotine in part because their brains respond differently than adults to seeing people light up, a small study suggests. To see if young minds might be hard-wired to desire cigarettes, researchers did magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of teens and adults – including smokers and…