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CMS considers expanding reimbursement for carotid stenting.

On January 25, 2012, Medicare (CMS) held a meeting to consider issues related to the current management of carotid arterial disease. One of the most important of these issues is whether or not Medicare should expand reimbursement for carotid artery stenting (CAS) to include patients with asymptomatic and low or standard surgical risk symptomatic carotid stenosis. Opinions vary widely regarding ...

Catching Liars.

While trying to think of an interesting way to introduce this major review of the field of lie detection, I did what lots of people do these days. I typed ‘‘catching liars’’ into the Google search bar and up came 305,000 results in .17 seconds. The first page was ‘‘10 ways to catch a liar’’ from WebMD. The essay featured J.J. Newberry, a trained federal agent purported to be skilled at detectin...

Eye catching

" Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development that experts called a major advance for the experimental technique, " said the Gainsville Sun in Florida, the state in which the results were announced at a meeting last month. It's a story that excited many news editors with a number of angles to heighten ...

Catching Metaphors

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language and developing methods to identify and deal with metaphors is an open problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In this paper we describe results from using a maximum entropy (ME) classifier to identify metaphors. Using the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) corpus, we annotated all the verbal targets associated with a set of frames which includes frames of spati...