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Existing AI solutions-like the XGBoost tool by Li et al.-show potential for preoperative screening but rely on fixed questionnaires and opaque feature weighting. We introduce a hybrid framework that combines reasoning LLMs (OpenAI o3, DeepSeek R1, Google Gemini 2.5, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet) with specialty medical m…

OBJECTIVES: Automated understanding of clinical records is a challenging task involving various legal and technical difficulties. Clinical free text is inherently redundant, unstructured, and full of acronyms, abbreviations and domain-specific language which make it challenging to mine automatically. There is much effo…

BACKGROUND: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is reported to be the most common rheumatological disorder associated with catatonia. To date, reports on catatonia manifestations in SLE patients are uncommon in published literature, which has often favored a fragmented vision. We performed a narrative review with the ai…

BACKGROUND: The objective of this systematic review was to identify the different surgical treatment modalities of severe trismus after head and neck squamous cell cancer treatment. METHODS: An electronic literature database search was conducted in Medline, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and OpenGrey to determine a…

In 2022, the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recommended that core faculty (CF) in medical subspecialty fellowships receive at least 0.1 full-time equivalent (FTE) salary support, with plans to enforce compliance in July 2023. After early feedback raised concerns about potential unintended conse…

Nicotine-free electronic cigarettes (NFECs) are becoming increasingly popular, especially among youth and non-smokers, yet their effects on the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) remain poorly understood. This systematic review synthesizes available in vitro, in vivo, and limited human evidence on NFEC-associated changes in…

The purpose of this systematic review was to calculate the 5-yr survival rates of all-ceramic zirconia-based fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) and to analyze technical and biological complications. An electronic literature search of MEDLINE (PubMed) was conducted independently by three reviewers to identify clinical studi…

Few studies have demonstrated an increased vulnerability to oxidative stress in autism. The results of previous studies have shown that endogenous antioxidant defence is insufficient, indicating that exogenous antioxidant could play a crucial role for oxidative stress prevention in autism. Plasma concentrations of vita…

This review aims to provide a summary of the flowmeter devices used in microvascular surgery and assesses their contribution to improving the clinical outcomes of free tissue transfer. Flowmeters are widely accepted as the standard method of intraoperative assessment of the patency of coronary vascular anastomoses, pro…

PURPOSE: To assess the implant survival rate in mandibles reconstructed with free fibula flap after oral tumor resection after 1 year of prosthetic loading. A secondary objective was to compare immediate or delayed implant placement protocols in this population. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Electronic and manual searches we…

PURPOSE: To compare non-commercial DICOM toolkits for their de-identification ability in removing a patient's personal health information (PHI) from a DICOM header. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten DICOM toolkits were selected for de-identification tests. Tests were performed by using the system's default de-identification…

Migraine-a term used to describe a unilateral throbbing headache has shown growing evidence of being linked to different types of strokes-particularly ischemic and hemorrhagic. This study aims to identify and summarize the relationship between migraine and the incidents of stroke in women of child-bearing age. Thi…

OBJECTIVE: This paper describes the University of Michigan's nine-year experience in developing and using a full-text search engine designed to facilitate information retrieval (IR) from narrative documents stored in electronic health records (EHRs). The system, called the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERS…

The significance of alignment scores of optimally aligned DNA sequences can be estimated through the score distribution of pairs of random sequences. It is necessary to obtain statistics for the relevant high-scoring tail of the distribution. For local alignments of iid drawn sequences it has already been shown that th…

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a key species in the Southern Ocean with an estimated biomass between 100 and 500 million tonnes. Changes in krill population viability would have catastrophic effect on the Antarctic ecosystem. One looming threat due to elevated levels of anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide…

Nogo (RTN4) proteins and their receptors have emerged as candidate mediators of metabolic regulation and vascular pathology relevant to type 2 diabetes (T2D). The primary objective of this PRISMA-guided systematic review was to evaluate the clinical and cohort evidence for RTN4/RTN4R as potential biomarkers of T2D prog…

BACKGROUND: BLAST searches are widely used for sequence alignment. The search results are commonly adopted for various functional and comparative genomics tasks such as annotating unknown sequences, investigating gene models and comparing two sequence sets. Advances in sequencing technologies pose challenges for high-t…

BACKGROUND: Periodontitis is a chronic multifactorial inflammatory disease, that leads to tooth loss and is associated with other systemic diseases. The role of dietary fibre in the prevention and management of periodontal diseases is not well understood. The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to…

This dataset arises from a multilingual survey of AI use among participants and community members in the DBCLS BioHackathon 2025 in Japan. The questionnaire, offered in English, Japanese, and Thai, asked about how often respondents use AI tools, what they use them for, obstacles they encounter, institutional support, s…

BACKGROUND: Literature focuses on the well-being of patients and little on the wellbeing of nurses who, in turn, should be educated about well-being. On the other hand, the latter often work under serious pressure with inadequate resources and shift organizations, exposing them to health risk factors. OBJECTIVE: To hi…