Home Business Loading Published: 10/16/2012 BY JON CHAVEZ BLADE BUSINESS WRITER It isnt that she prefers doing things the hard way, but its probably fair to say that Najwa Kassem, all 5-foot-2 of her, has never backed down from the many challenges that have come her way. Growing up in her native Lebanon, there was pressure to settle down and marry and not pursue a career. Instead, she went to school and became a pharmacist. Later, she wanted to start her own pharmacy in her town of Baalbeck, but everyone cautioned her that in Baalbeck a conservative, traditional city whose roots date back 9,000 years women do not own businesses. Its very unusual for a woman to own her own business there, Mrs. Kassem said. There were seven other pharmacies and all of them were run by males. I was told, This is a big challenge for you, a girl, in this area, with seven other guys. I dont think youre going to stand a chance. Undeterred, she started her own pharmacy, which became very successful and was destined to remain that way until 1995 when she met a visiting American, Jamil Kassem. A whirlwind romance ensued, and after a … Continue reading
Categories
- Aesthetic Medicine
- Aesthetic Surgery
- Ai
- ALS Treatment
- Anatomy
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence
- Batten Disease Treatment
- BioEngineering
- BioInformatics
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Bitcoin
- Brain Injury Treatment
- Cardiac Nursing
- Cardiac Regeneration
- Cardiac Remodeling
- Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities
- Cardiac Surgery
- Cardiology
- Cardiomyopathies
- Cardiovascular Pharmacology
- Cell Medicine
- Cell Therapy
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral Palsy Treatment
- Cheap Pharmacy
- Chemistry
- Clinical Cardiology
- Coronary Heart Diseases
- Cryptocurrency
- DNA
- Drug Dependency
- Drug Side Effects
- Drugs
- Eczema
- Elon Musk
- Embryology
- Erectile Dysfunction
- FDA Stem Cell Trials
- Femtomedicine
- Future Medicine
- Gene Medicine
- Gene Therapy
- Gene Therapy Trials
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetic Therapy
- Genetics
- Germ Line Engineering
- Heart Diseases
- HGH
- Hgh Injections
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Human Genetics
- Human Growth Hormone
- Human Immortality
- Hyperbaric Medicine
- Hypertension
- Hypothalamus
- Impotency
- Internet Pharmacy
- Interventional Cardiology
- IVF Treatment
- Lyme Disease
- Male Sexual Dysfunction
- Mars Colony
- Medical Business
- Medical School
- Medical Technology
- Medicine
- Mental Health
- Mesenchymal Stem Cells
- Micropenia
- Molecular Cardiology
- MS Treatment
- Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
- Myocardial Infarction
- Nanotechnology
- Online Pharmacy
- Oral Health
- Parkinson's Treatment
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Penis Enlargement
- Pet Stem Cell Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Picomedicine
- Premature Ejaculation
- Prescriptions
- Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Sermorelin
- Singularity
- Sleep
- Spacex
- Spinal Cord Injury Treatment
- Stem Cell Clinical Trials
- Stem Cell Experiments
- Stem Cell Human Trials
- Stem Cell Injections
- Stem Cell Research
- Stem Cell Transplant
- Stem Cell Treatments
- Testosterone
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Uncategorized
- Vascular Biology
- Ventricular Remodeling
- Wholesale Pharmacy
Archives