内容摘要：Belgian researchers announced a similar experiment in January, implanting pieces of testicular tissue rather than cells in a childhood cancer survivor.

Belgian researchers announced a similar experiment in January, implanting pieces of testicular tissue rather than cells in a childhood cancer survivor.

for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area.It sells catheters, colostomy supplies and diabetic testing strips. The storage room contains things that people rely on to survive, such as a dozen boxes of food for patients who must eat through tubes. The pharmacy fills prescriptions in bulk for the county jail, state retirement center and youth group homes. Some patients come from Jackson, five hours away by car, for

Craig Jones helps a patient at Basin Pharmacy in Basin, Wyo.. His pharmacy is the key health care access point for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)Craig Jones helps a patient at Basin Pharmacy in Basin, Wyo.. His pharmacy is the key health care access point for the town of about 1,300 people and the surrounding area. (AP Photo/Mike Clark)Pharmacist Craig Jones makes house calls when no one else can, answers his phone at all hours of the night and stops to chat about bowel movements at church. Yet Jones keeps a pile of his own paychecks on a desk in the back of his pharmacy. Four months’ worth, uncashed.

“Every year, it’s a little worse,” Jones said of the financial pressures on his business.Rural pharmacies, independent or chain, can be a

. The staff knows everyone’s names and drugs, answers questions about residents’ mail-order prescriptions or can spot the signs of serious illness.

But rural pharmacies’ business models face unrelenting pressures to the point that sometimes they have to close. Several largely rural states have some of the lowest number of pharmacies per ZIP code, according to an AP analysis of data from 49 states and the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs.Rachel Dancyg holds her dog, Billie, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Israeli soldiers found Billie in the Gaza Strip, 18 months after she disappeared during Hamas’ attack on Dancyg’s Kibbutz of Nir Oz, in Binyamina, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

While Israeli media happily reported Billie’s return, the Nir Oz community reminded people not to forget what the family went through. In a Facebook post, the kibbutz called the reunion a “little light in a lot of sorrow.”The body of Dancyg’s ex-husband, Alex, 76, was recovered by the army and returned in August. The body of her brother

68, was returned earlier this year as part of a ceasefire.For Dancyg, Billie’s return gives her some sense of closure. Yet she said it is bittersweet knowing there are hostages still in Gaza.