Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections

Breaking news for our journal.

The Italian Society of Surgery has been acting to spread information about Italian medical research in the field of surgery within an international context. This project has been going on since 2007. Since then, we have been publishing Society monographs in English in the new series ‘‘Updates in Surgery,’’ and the wide diffusion of these books has induced us to increase our international visibi...

Breaking our password hash habit

Attackers only get better at guessing the passwords users will create under a given set of passwordcomposition constraints. They learn more about users’ password-selection behaviors each time they compromise a passsword, regardless of whether they obtain the password by breaching a password database, installing a key logger, phishing, or by guessing. Defensive analysis of user-chosen passwords ...

Seeking the connections: alcoholism and our genes.

With rapid advances over the past 10 years in technologies for discovering and analyzing the functions of genes, researchers are now increasingly able to get at the biological roots of complex disorders such as substance abuse and addiction. The power to examine patterns of inheritance in large populations, and to survey hundreds of thousands of tiny variations in the genomes of each of those i...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Improving Our Bodies, Our Meals, and Our Gadgets