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.
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.
OkRx, a web-based system, is being offered by Toronto's Lawlor Pharmacy to help patients manage the patchwork system of coverage for expensive biologic and biosimilar drugs.
Five medication trends Vishal Ravikanti, director of pharmacy consulting and partnerships and health benefits management for TELUS Health, is thinking about.
Rare, but it happens. Researchers used a database of SCD cases that were referred to the center for cardiac pathology at St George’s University of London between 1994 and 2020.
