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An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation
If approved, a new rule could end the entrenched pay advantages for specialists like surgeons over other doctors.
An A.M.A. committee determines the difficulty and time demands of each type of medical visit, test and procedure -- and then recommends to Medicare how much doctors should be paid for performing them.
For decades, critics have complained that this process unfairly rewards surgeons and othe…

An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation
If approved, a new rule could end the entrenched pay advantages for specialists like surgeons over other doctors.

MediQAl: A French Medical Question Answering Dataset for Knowledge and Reasoning Evaluation
Adrien Bazoge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20917 https://arxiv.or…

MediQAl: A French Medical Question Answering Dataset for Knowledge and Reasoning Evaluation
This work introduces MediQAl, a French medical question answering dataset designed to evaluate the capabilities of language models in factual medical recall and reasoning over real-world clinical scenarios. MediQAl contains 32,603 questions sourced from French medical examinations across 41 medical subjects. The dataset includes three tasks: (i) Multiple-Choice Question with Unique answer, (ii) Multiple-Choice Question with Multiple answer, and (iii) Open-Ended Question with Short-Answer. Each …

Balanced Gray Codes for Permutations and Rainbow Cycles for Associahedra
Robert Lauff, Lucca Tiemens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19293 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Balanced Gray Codes for Permutations and Rainbow Cycles for Associahedra
We settle the problem of constructing a balanced transposition Gray code for permutations of $[n] := \{1, \dots, n\}$ with $n \in \mathbb{N}\setminus\{0\}$. More generally, we obtain a~$2(m-2)!$-rainbow cycle for the permutations of $[n]$ for $m \in [n]$, a notion recently introduced by Felsner, Kleist, Mütze, and Sering. Furthermore, we extend a result of theirs by presenting a $k$-rainbow cycle for the classical associahedron $\mathcal{A}_{n}$ for $k \in [2n + 2]$. For even $n$, we also co…

Smooth functions that split a Klein bottle into two M\"obius bands
Bohdan Mazhar, Sergiy Maksymenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19636 https://arxiv.org…

Smooth functions that split a Klein bottle into two Möbius bands
Given a compact surface $M$, consider the right action $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(M)\times\mathcal{D}(M)\to\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(M)$, $(f, h) \mapsto f\circ h$, of the group $\mathcal{D}(M)$ of $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ diffeomorphisms of $M$ on the space $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(M)$ of $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ functions on $M$. For $f\in\mathcal{C}^{\infty}(M)$ denote by $\mathcal{O}(f)$ its orbit, and by $\mathcal{O}_f(f)$ the path component of $\mathcal{O}(f)$ containing $f$. The paper continues a serie…

Dino U-Net: Exploiting High-Fidelity Dense Features from Foundation Models for Medical Image Segmentation
Yifan Gao, Haoyue Li, Feng Yuan, Xiaosong Wang, Xin Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20909

Dino U-Net: Exploiting High-Fidelity Dense Features from Foundation Models for Medical Image Segmentation
Foundation models pre-trained on large-scale natural image datasets offer a powerful paradigm for medical image segmentation. However, effectively transferring their learned representations for precise clinical applications remains a challenge. In this work, we propose Dino U-Net, a novel encoder-decoder architecture designed to exploit the high-fidelity dense features of the DINOv3 vision foundation model. Our architecture introduces an encoder built upon a frozen DINOv3 backbone, which employ…

The first higher Chow groups of $\mathcal{M}_{1,n}$ for $n\leq 4$
William C. Newman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20264 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20264

The first higher Chow groups of $\mathcal{M}_{1,n}$ for $n\leq 4$
For $n\leq 4$, we compute the indecomposible higher Chow groups $\overline{\operatorname{CH}}(\mathcal{M}_{1,n},1)$ with integer coefficients. As an application, we give new proofs of presentations of the integral Chow rings $\operatorname{CH}(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{1,n})$ for $n\leq 4$ and determine formulas for the classes of boundary strata in these rings.

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California
for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant,
accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT.
The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study
Rachel M. Murphy (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Nishant Mishra (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Nicolette F. de Keizer (Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam, T…

Detection of Adverse Drug Events in Dutch clinical free text documents using Transformer Models: benchmark study
In this study, we set a benchmark for adverse drug event (ADE) detection in Dutch clinical free text documents using several transformer models, clinical scenarios and fit-for-purpose performance measures. We trained a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) model and four transformer-based Dutch and/or multilingual encoder models (BERTje, RobBERT, MedRoBERTa.nl, and NuNER) for the tasks of named entity recognition (NER) and relation classification (RC) using 102 richly annotated Dutch I…

Two results on set families: sturdiness and intersection
Yongjiang Wu, Zhiyi Liu, Lihua Feng, Yongtao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19723 https://arxiv.org…

Two results on set families: sturdiness and intersection
This paper resolves two open problems in extremal set theory. For a family $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^{[n]}$ and $i, j\in [n]$, we denote $\mathcal{F} (i,\bar{j})=\{F\backslash\{i\}: F\in \mathcal{F}, F\cap\{i,j\}=\{i\}\}$. The sturdiness $β(\mathcal{F})$ is defined as the minimum $|\mathcal{F} (i,\bar{j})|$ over all $i\neq j$. A family $\mathcal{F}$ is called an IU-family if it satisfies the intersection constraint: $F\cap F'\neq \emptyset $ for all $F,F'\in \mathcal{F}$, as well as t…

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid vaccines for the fall season that limit who can get the shots
-- the federal government’s most restrictive policy since the vaccines became available.
The agency authorized the vaccines for people who are 65 and older, who are known to be more vulnerable to severe illness from Covid.
Younger people would only be eligible if they had at least one underlying medical condition that would put them at risk for s…

FDA Approves Updated Covid Vaccines With New Restrictions
The agency’s fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.