Fired NYU Langone hospitalist says the hospital called her time-limited leave requests indefinite
NYU Langone Health fired a $230,000-a-year hospitalist after childbirth left her with spinal complications, according to a lawsuit filed October 7. The complaint says her medical notes gave specific return dates, so the hospital's written description of her requests as indefinite now has to hold up against its own files.
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Fruit flies hold a goal heading in two coupled neuron groups and write it in by lifting inhibition from one of them, a study in Nature reports. It is a real circuit for the gate that working-memory models add by hand, though the switch is shown so far by a model and by well-timed inhibition.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers found each extra 100g of sugary food on antibiotics went with an average 24% bigger gut-diversity drop in 158 patients. Mouse experiments point to sugar feeding a pathogen bloom, though the patient result is an association drawn from hospital meal logs.
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99% detection in 3,339 pregnancies turns an autism-traits test into a dose comparison
NYU Langone's team measured organophosphate metabolites in urine from 3,339 ECHO pregnancies and found no association with Social Responsiveness Scale scores at ages five to seven. The result is narrower than it sounds.
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AI text detectors are good enough to deploy. The appeals process is what nobody has written.
Cancer-journal editors are already catching undisclosed LLM use in peer review with commercial software. The unresolved question is what happens to a flagged researcher who says no.
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- Evidence64
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- Hype gap+22
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- Confidence55