Mariana G. Braz, PhD
San Francisco—By the end of their residency, young anesthesiologists might be entering the workforce with an unexpected byproduct of their training: genetic damage. A team of Brazilian researchers has concluded that physicians exposed to high concentrations of inhalational anesthetics demonstrate increases in genetic instability and cell death biomarkers, as well as reduced cell-proliferative potential, all of which might predispose them to chronic disease in the