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Days into our freshman year of medical school at the University of Louisville, all 140 of us were herded into the gross anatomy lab on the top floor of the main building. Rows of florescent lights illuminated a space where we would spend months studying the human body in minute detail. Despite my having spent summers as a nursing assistant and occasionally observing surgery, my anxiety grew as the professor began assigning cadavers. I'd never fainted in my life but the thought was more terrifying than what lay beneath the thick, smudgy plastic in the steel case before me. 2023-07-20

PARIS — Three years ago, he said goodbye to his post at the hospital. Nowadays, he has different patients: Jivaro heads, overmodeled skulls, and other mummified body parts. Philippe Charlier, MD, PhD, LittD, is in his fifth year as the director of the Department of Research and Education at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. His research into historical figures' causes of death has brought him into the public eye. Through the numerous books he has written over the years, he shares his fascination with death rituals, phantoms, ghosts, and zombies. Let's get to know the many dimensions of this fascinating and spirited man. 2023-07-21

Multiple gut bacterial species that are commonly found in the mouth, especially several forms of Streptococcus, were associated with coronary atherosclerosis and systemic inflammatory biomarkers in a population-based observational study. 2023-07-19

Asthma has long been associated with the use of inhalers to control symptoms. The new S2K guideline on the management of asthma, compiled by experts and published in March 2023, aims to change this. "For decades, we have known about medication that can be used to put asthma into remission. The patient can go out or travel on vacation without an inhaler. This is possible. This is a symptom-prevention approach," said the guideline coordinator Marek Lommatzsch, MD, PhD, head senior physician of the Pulmonology Department at the University Medicine Rostock, Germany, in a conversation with Medscape Medical News. 2023-07-10