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New York University Langone Health

NYU Langone Health is a major academic medical center in New York City, encompassing hospitals, research institutes, and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

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  • NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • NYU Langone

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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.

Publishers:hcamag.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence55
scienceConfirmed2 publishers

Disinhibition gates how fruit flies lock a goal heading into a recurrent memory circuit

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.

Publishers:nature.comneurosciencenews.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives40
Confidence60
scienceConfirmed2 publishers

Blood-cancer patients who ate more sugar on antibiotics lost more gut microbiome diversity

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.

Publishers:nature.comnewscientist.com

Reality

Evidence65
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Insufficient
Confidence60