Articles

1st July 2025

An HIV Prevention Milestone: Truvada Goes Generic

The world of HIV prevention medications is still relatively new. In 2004, Truvada roared onto the scene and drastically changed the future of HIV. While the medication was initially used to treat HIV, in 2012 the FDA approved its use as a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily prescription medication that prevents HIV infection.When taken as prescribed, Truvada is 99% effective at preventing sexually transmitted HIV infection. It has been shown to potentially cause decreased kidney fun...

1st July 2025

What’s the Difference Between Generic and Brand-Name Medications?

We tend to feel mistrustful of anything we deem a knockoff, assuming we’ll end up with a lesser version of the real thing. With “we get what we pay for” a familiar refrain, we learn to associate better quality with a higher price. So when it comes to generic medications, which can cost 85% less than their brand-name counterparts, it’s no wonder we may cast a suspicious eye. However, unlike a bootleg movie or copycat handbag, generic medications are tightly controlled by the FDA...

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2nd July 2025

From Dockside Bars to Dance Halls: The Birth of Tango

Long before it graced grand theaters and global stages, tango was born in the shadows. As the intellectual elite debated amongst themselves over the true identity of the Argentine, a cultural phenomenon that would come to define the very essence of the porteño was being conceived in the brothels of the outer barrios.

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2nd July 2025

Mirroring Buenos Aires

During the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, Argentina underwent a period of rapid development as a nation politically, socially, and demographically. Its capital, Buenos Aires, stood at the base of these changes, transforming from a colonial port to an economically and culturally robust urban center.

ArtPin Blog • 6th February 2020

5 artists who make beautiful works of art from trash

In an age of overconsumption, many artists are using the products of our excess to make powerful statements about waste. Others simply find poetry in transforming the discarded into something beautiful. Whatever the motivation, the results of their work are often breathtaking and always thought-provoking.

20th June 2017

24 hours in Seoul

The city of Seoul is, at first glance, a bewildering composite of extremes. Once experienced, however, it is apparent that Asia’s most eccentric city is truly defined by its dualities. Here in Korea’s capital, a city of over 10 million, the ancient is contrasted with the contemporary in a burst of neon and steel, paper and wood.

Alto Pharmacy Blog • 18th November 2020

Too stressed to sleep? These strategies can help.

Stress and sleep can form a pretty vicious cycle. No matter how physically exhausted we feel when our heads hit the pillow, we just can’t seem to quiet our racing minds. Then, after tossing and turning our way through the night, we’re way too fatigued to function at our best. This leads to more anxiety...and on and on and on.

Right now, it’s not just the usual looming deadlines and relationship flare-ups that are keeping us up at night. As we head into fall, our schedules start overflowing, we

Roundglass Blog • 23rd February 2023

Why resolutions don't work — and what to do instead

New Year's resolutions feel exciting in the warm glow of December. But they start to lose their luster once the glitter has been swept from Times Square. A recent study found that 64% of resolutions don't last a month— it seems the surge of optimism of January 1st can only carry us so far.

If the odds are against us, is the answer giving up on resolutions altogether? We turned to experts for advice on creating healthy habits that stick.

Alto Pharmacy Blog • 18th November 2020

Cold, Flu, or COVID-19? Your seasonal symptom guide

For most of the year, we’ve had one virus on our minds. But as cold and flu season moves into full swing, an onslaught of new symptoms could sow confusion. Rather than letting every cough or sniffle cause a panic, let’s sort through the most likely symptoms of the three respiratory illnesses to look out for this season: the cold, flu, and COVID-19.

We can usually get an idea of what the flu season holds in store for us by studying recent flu activity in the Southern Hemisphere. This year...

Roundglass Blog • 23rd February 2023

How to HALT negative emotions with mindfulness

Have you ever had a day when the world seemed perfectly positioned to get under your skin? You spilled your coffee. You can’t find your favorite shirt. And you’re sure you’ll scream if you hit one more red light. In moments like these, it’s easy to lose control of your emotions — and you’re in danger of dumping your frustrations on whoever crosses your path.

Before you say or do something you’ll regret, tell yourself to “HALT.” Hidden within these letters might be the key to freeing your frustrated mind.

ArtPin Blog • 6th February 2020

An interview with artist Barry Underwood

In his series, Scenes, Barry Underwood uses modified light-emitting objects, such as LEDs and glow sticks, to stage preternatural intrusions into his chosen landscape, then captures the effects using long exposures. The series combines elements of photography, sculpture, and land art, and draws upon his early work in theater as a technical director. The otherworldly beauty of the resulting images can be inexplicably discomforting, as if we are witnessing an alien invasion of an otherwise tranquil scene.

Glo Blog • 31st July 2020

Staying connected in a socially distanced world

Lately, many of us have experienced bouts of loneliness or melancholy as a result of our missed connections. But while COVID-19 has certainly exacerbated the problem, wide-spread loneliness is not a new phenomenon.

According to a January 2020 survey of 10,000 American adults, 61 percent— or roughly three in five — reported feeling lonely.¹ Major factors including a lack of social support and too few meaningful social interactions.

Glo Blog • 31st July 2020

7 ways to ease the unexpected challenges of staying in

The reality of COVID-19 has changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. So many of us are experiencing an entirely new way of being as we adjust to completing our daily routines at home. But that doesn’t mean we have to forgo the practices that preserve our happiness, productivity, or sanity. In fact, we need them now more than ever.

Glo Blog • 27th January 2020

Tending your fire

In cultures throughout the world, fire is a central element of spiritual practice, revered as the source of light and spark of life. We are captivated by fire—drawn to its warmth and mesmerized by its glow, instinctively aware of its potential for rapid transformation. While it can rage with a power beyond our control, fire can also be fledgling and vulnerable, relying on us for care and sustenance.

Glo Blog • 19th January 2020

On why we wake

The hours before sunrise are known as the ambrosial hours. They are quiet, dark, and laden with potential. They are sweet with the promise of intimacy with the infinite. While there are benefits to practice at any and all times of day, yogis consider this time particularly potent. Perhaps because it is difficult to find such stillness elsewhere; perhaps because there is power in attuning yourself to the frequency of each dawning day.

Glo Blog • 19th January 2020

Healing in all directions

When you set out to climb a steep slope, the most expedient route isn’t a straight line toward the peak. Instead, you zig and zag, gradually making your way upward at an incline that’s sustainable. Though at times it might feel like you’re moving sideways or even backward, all along you’ll still be making your way forward and up.

Healing, like climbing, is rarely a direct path upward. While it’s natural to want to keep track of your progress, it isn’t always obvious and on some days you might...