Department: Feature Article

Despite its illusory name, phantom pain is as real as it gets.

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Checkups, eye care, dental, medication – thanks to Lillian Cingo, RN, and Lynette Coetzee, it's all there on South Africa's Phelophepa Train.

Want to know what it's like to drive a mobile ophthalmology clinic across northern Ontario?

Nurse Margot Wider's Harlequin heroines are historical.

Improved status of healthcare professionals and advances in hygiene, procedures, and medications. Could war have a good side?

Bioterrorism is no laughing matter, but we think we can teach a few basics through humor.

An historic dish with impressive health benefits (and, many would say, an awful smell and appalling taste) …

Pharmacist Sam Uretsky takes a look at the who, when, why of drug abuse among healthcare professionals.

Nurse Julia Plotnick came to the aid of Rwanda, Japan, Romania, and Uganda.

With fears of avian flu looming, what plans are governments, healthcare facilities, and businesses making to deal with it?

In an instant, a day of ordinary work on a mountain ranch turns into a day of terror.

A PT learns from her own experience as a patient at a cancer clinic.

You never forget some patients. Michael Moreton, an obstetrician, recalls one of his most memorable.

Making a place for the sweat lodge: Elaine Johnston bridges two cultures to heal mind, body, and spirit.

Erin Puck knows what pediatric patients need because she's been one of them.

Samuel Uretsky, PharmD, tells us about those drugs that have so many off-label uses, one might think they're miraculous.

Being a transplant recipient gives you a second chance at life – and the responsibility to live it to the fullest.

Moving overseas can be a wonderful experience. We have the information you need to make sure it is.

Working for International Aid has brought one radiologic technologist far a field, and she shares her expertise with others wherever she goes.