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- 5/19/2022
Dementia metaphors help describe the condition, but can also perpetuate stigma and hinder treatment
Some metaphors of dementia include comparisons to zombies or children. We see this when someone refers to the experience of dementia as “regressing to childhood” or as being “the walking dead.” - 5/19/2022
170 Saskatchewan pharmacies can now prescribe Paxlovid
Previously, the medication could only be prescribed through a central team at the province's health authority. - 5/19/2022
Laboratory mice are usually distressed and overweight, calling into question research findings
Over 120 million laboratory rats and mice are used worldwide each year. Many are used to study distressing conditions like cancer, arthritis and chronic pain, and nearly all spend their lives in small, empty box-like cages: a kind of permanent lockdown. - 5/19/2022
Canada facing shortage of allergy friendly baby formula, feds say
Health Canada says in a Thursday advisory that supplies of allergy-friendly formulas aren't meeting demand in some provinces. - 5/19/2022
The (pharmaceutical) funny pages: Knowledge is powerful—and sometimes unhelpful
In a world of endless data, sometimes it's your friend and sometimes it isn't. - 5/19/2022
Lab-grown mini-brains could help find treatments for Alzheimer’s and other diseases
Alzheimer’s has been cured more than 400 times in laboratories. How then can we still consider Alzheimer’s to be incurable? The reason is that it has only been cured in animals. - 5/18/2022
POLL: How are you feeling about the return of live educational events?
We're starting to see the re-emergence of in-person pharmacy conferences and events this Spring. How comfortable are you feeling with their reemergence? - 5/18/2022
Health officials say 'strong possibility' of 17 monkeypox cases in Montreal area
Dr. Mylene Drouin says most cases identified in the city are not severe, and their symptoms involve a period of fever and sweating followed by the appearance of a painful rash in the genital area. - 5/18/2022
20 years after spate of hospital deaths, ex worker accused
In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 "code blue'' incidents.