These days our pets have it all—“pawdicures”, yoga classes, MRIs and…Prozac? Is the popularity of Big Pharma’s “pooch-me-up drugs” a sign of our heightened compassion, or evidence of an overindulgent society chasing its tail?
More than one-third of all adults in Lesotho are HIV positive. A small group of health care workers struggle to distribute life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). However, if the pilot project collapses an ARV resistant strain of HIV/AIDS may develop. Lesotho is now the front-line of a global battle.
On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous gas that killed thousands. Beyond the initial horror, “Bhopal” has become a rallying cry for post 9/11 concerns about industrial security and pollution.
With the growing impotence of antibiotics, bacteriophages may be the best weapon left against infection. Killer Cure is the personal journey of desperate men and women at the intersection of hype, hope and heroics in search of a medical miracle.
Triage: Dr James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma