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ATOZET® a New Combination Treatment Option for High-Risk Patients to Lower LDL Cholesterol, is Now Approved in Singapore.

ASEAN+ Rare Disease Network Established.

Luye Medical Joins Forces with OncoCare To Expand Its Integrated Healthcare Services Platform for Their Patients.

NUS Pharmacy Team Develops Online “Calculator” to Predict Risk of Early Hospital Readmission.

The Bare Essentials: Ensuring Affordable Access to Insulin.

AstraZeneca’s CVD-REAL Study Shows SGLT-2 Inhibitors Significantly Reduced Death and Hospitalisations for Heart Failure Versus Other Type-2 Diabetes Medicines.

The death care industry satisfies the ritualistic and technical needs associated with human death, providing ceremonial services such as the tribute, the disposition of remains, and memorialization (Industry Focus: Death Care, 2016). However, although from a technical point-of-view and according to the Basel Convention, human remains are nothing but a type of hazardous anatomical waste, sociocultural factors affect the availability of choice between separate specific disposal options (Technical Guidelines on the Environmentally Sound Management of Biomedical and Healthcare Wastes, 2003) that drive social, ecological, and economic costs.

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Background: Iran and the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Mourning Traditions and Stigma in Iran
• Death, Emotions, and Funerals in Iran
• Virtual Funerals During the Pandemic: A Case Study
• Conclusion
• References