Philippe Charlier: A Scientist Among the Supernatural at HealthBulance.

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

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

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) certainly affected hospital finances, but government aid may have given some organizations' bottom lines an oversized boost. A new study published in JAMA Health Forum found that many hospitals achieved all-time high financial positions 2 years into the pandemic despite rising supply and labor costs, suggesting that they may have received too much relief funding. 2023-07-19

Medscape recently interviewed Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH, director of clinical research in the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, an institute physician at Dana-Farber, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, to gain her insight on adding targeted agents to endocrine therapy (ET) for hormone receptor–positive, human epidermal growth factor 2–negative (HR+/HER2-) metastatic breast cancer (MBC). 2023-06-28

Medical-surgical registered nurses say their concerns over staffing levels and quality of patient care have been ongoing and ignored by management for the past six years. 2023-06-24