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Could early life antibiotic use be associated with chronic disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Where are the blind spots in medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Blind Spots is the name of a new book by Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, illustrating how medicine sometimes gets it wrong and then seems unable to reverse the tide of established treatments and …
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Does the argument that limiting smartphone use works hold water? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Burgeoning research demonstrates that smartphone use in schools is detrimental to individual students and corrosive for the learning environment. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, says attempts to simply limit their use are not enough. …
Some schools have already banned smartphones in students’ interest, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Should smartphones even be allowed in schools? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Smartphones are ubiquitous, with over half of US children owning one by the time they are 11 years of age. Much research is emerging demonstrating just how harmful this can be, especially when phones remain in the hands of kids …
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