Recruiting internationally educated healthcare professionals to work in underserved communities is not new. However, challenges in keeping them in these communities persist.
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.
You would think that after more than two decades of following all things pharmacy, there would come a point at which nothing could impress or surprise me. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
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.”
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.
