Utilizing Large Language Models to Generate Synthetic Data to Increase the Performance of BERT-Based Neural Networks.

An important problem impacting healthcare is the lack of available experts. Machine learning (ML) models may help resolve this by aiding in screening and diagnosing patients. However, creating large, representative datasets to train models is expensive.

Crowdsourcing with Enhanced Data Quality Assurance: An Efficient Approach to Mitigate Resource Scarcity Challenges in Training Large Language Models for Healthcare.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential in artificial intelligence across various domains, including healthcare. However, their efficacy is hindered by the need for high-quality labeled data, which is often expensive and time-consuming to create, particularly in low-resource domains like healthcare. To address these challenges, we propose a crowdsourcing (CS) framework enriched with quality control measures at the pre-, real-time-, and post-data gathering stages.

African American mothers' perceptions of infant body size are prospectively associated with infant growth and BMI.

Objectives: The effect of mothers' perceptions of infant body size on infant growth and later BMI is poorly understood. We aimed to assess whether maternal perceptions were associated with infant BMI and weight gain and to identify factors that may influence maternal perceptions.

Methods: We analyzed data from a prospective, longitudinal study of pregnant African American women living with healthy weight (BMI < 25 kg/m ) or obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m ).

Esophageal remodeling in eosinophilic esophagitis: Relationships to luminal captured biomarkers of inflammation and periostin.

Background: Esophageal remodeling is a factor in disease progression and symptom severity for patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Remodeling can begin early in children, resulting in stricture and food impaction. Detection of esophageal remodeling often depends on endoscopy and is appreciated only in its later stages.

Exclusion of an Azygos Vein Varix With a Covered Stent.

An azygos vein varix was incidentally discovered in a 26-year-old man. Owing to the potential risk of pulmonary emboli, we implanted a covered stent in the superior vena cava, effectively excluding the varix. Eighth months later, the varix was thrombosed and involuted.

A Culinary Medicine Elective for Clinically Experienced Medical Students: A Pilot Study.

Culinary medicine, a combination of nutrition science and the culinary arts, is an emerging approach for teaching nutrition to medical students and improving their competence in counseling patients with diet-associated diseases. Data are, however, lacking on the impact of culinary medicine courses directed at clinically experienced students. This study reports initial outcomes of a pilot nutrition and culinary medicine course targeting 4th-year medical students.

Comparative Genomic Screen in Two Yeasts Reveals Conserved Pathways in the Response Network to Phenol Stress.

Living organisms encounter various perturbations, and response mechanisms to such perturbations are vital for species survival. Defective stress responses are implicated in many human diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Phenol derivatives, naturally occurring and synthetic, display beneficial as well as detrimental effects.