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• Asia-Pacific — Early treatment of vision and hearing problems can contribute to enhancing health for older adults
• Asia-Pacific — Study finds association between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder various biomarkers and health conditions
• Asia-Pacific — Japanese scientists discover new species of non-blooming orchids on Japanese subtropical islands
• Asia-Pacific — Improving sleep quality through short mindfulness training programmes
• Asia-Pacific — Breakthrough research in genetic engineering for precision agriculture boosts microbial manufacturing
• Asia-Pacific — Alteration of intrinsic properties of non-magnetized metals using light
• Asia-Pacific — Wireless manipulation of brain cells to help in neurological disease management
• Asia-Pacific — Relieving bottleneck in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food crops
• Asia-Pacific — Cardiac regeneration through novel dual stem cell therapy
• Rest of the World — American Heart Association advices prescription of omega-3 fatty acid medications to lower triglyceride levels
• Rest of the World — Evasion of immunodeficiency viruses by our ancestors
• Rest of the World — Detection of unreported cases of Zika virus during 2017 outbreak
• Rest of the World — How scorpion toxin is helping researchers solve the mystery of chronic pain

The ideology of neoliberalism serves to obscure the true costs of neoliberal influence on university campuses. In recent decades, for example, university faculty have increasingly come to be viewed as “employees” serving “clients,” a move that serves to centralize power in the workplace, undermine academic independence, and justify increasing faculty workloads. These trends are bad news for faculty with disabilities, including those who live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), because they have served to perpetuate ableism in the academic workplace. This chapter includes a brief autoethnographic account of academic work life written from the perspective of a faculty member who lives with ADHD. It concludes with a call for a two-pronged response to neoliberal demands for hyper-productivity. Such a response would combine appropriate workplace accommodations with the promotion of modes of self-care that prioritize critical reflection.