This report is an overview of the methods used by the Democritus University of Thrace team (DUTH) at the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Track of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). We investigated the concept of atoms from the United Medical Language System (UMLS) as a method to augment medical queries. We ultimately found that massively augmenting queries with too many words leads to a...

Background: Social media provides people with easy ways to communicate their attitudes and feelings to a wide audience. Many people unfortunately have negative associations and feelings about dental treatment due to former painful experiences. Former research indicates that there might exist a pervasive and negative occupational stereotype related to dentists, and that this stereotype is expres...

A good French-English Medical Dictionary is an absolute necessity. Dr. Gordon has rendered a service to Medical Science in preparing a very useful pronouncing dictionary for all who wish to keep in touch wilh the vast amount of work that is being done by French workers in medical science. The Dictionary produced by Dr. Gordon will be found very useful especially as it gives the pronounciation o...

The words in the title were used by an elderly medical widow whose circumstances changed suddenly and she did not know where to turn to or how she was going to manage. The Royal Medical Benevolent Fund was contacted and as a result of her application and the back up report of the Area Visitor, this lady has been helped and her worries have been lifted from her shoulders. These words of thanks s...

Compound words are frequently encountered in the medical domain. Their conciseness complies with the telegraphic style usually adopted by clinicians in daily practice. This amplifies the need for clarifying their semantic interpretation and representation through respectively the analysis and generation processes. While highlighting the peculiarities of medical compound words, this paper shows ...