Perspectives In recent years, pharmaceutical companies have introduced new expensive medicines, some of which target only small patient populations. For example, trastuzumab (Herceptin®), imatinib (Glivec®) and sofosbuvir (Sovaldi®) are high-priced medicines that have been shown to be effective and safe for treating cancer or hepatitis C, diseases for which no effective treatment existed previo...

The task of a profession is to sustain a set of life’s essential principles alive in society’s thinking. At its core, this is not a contract – a service offered for money – it is a covenant with Life itself. It involves fundamental insights about Life that go beyond self-centredness and requires significant maturity and competence in those who dedicate their lives to embodying those principles....

reminding function (of innate knowledge) is one of the most important nonindependentfunctions of revelation. prophets and saints of god have employeddifferent approaches for realizing this function and duty of revelation.revealed texts, offering explanatory role (explaining the innate covenant, itscontent and characteristics), educational role (teaching religion, prayer andworship), motivationa...