2022

Thyroid gland

Why is iodine solution ineffective? Answers to questions about iodine prophylaxis that a pharmacist should know

Why is iodine solution ineffective? Because it contains the same potassium iodide? Other types of iodine solutions (alcoholic iodine solution, Lugol’s solution, povidone iodine) are not absorbed or accumulated in the thyroid gland and will not protect against radioactive iodine. It is a matter of both ingestion and application of iodine nets. Taking these drugs […]

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The goal is to increase pharmacy sales by 20%. How to achieve this?

Objective reasons  Let’s imagine that last month the turnover of the pharmacy amounted to 100 thousand UAH. Next month, of course, the management increased the planned sales figure to UAH 120 thousand, i.e. by 20%. How, armed with this “plan”, began to act pharmacists? No way. Most likely, they will wait until the 24-25th, and

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Lithuanian medical team

Traumatologists, resuscitators and nurses from Lithuania came to Ukraine

Two medical teams from Lithuania came to Ukraine: four doctors (traumatologists, resuscitators) and eight nurses each. In total – 24 people. According to Health Minister Viktor Lyashko, in the first days after the war started, some Ukrainian medical workers left for western regions or abroad, but the overwhelming majority of surgical and trauma teams continued

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Volunteer assistance

Delta Medical’s Business Unit Manager manufactures balaclavas and offloads

Yulia, a business unit manager, volunteered with her husband for 10 days in the Kiev subway feeding people. But when it became dangerous near their home in the Lukyanivka neighborhood, they left for Western Ukraine. When they arrived, they started to ask about the needs of people and realized that they lacked balaclavas, unloads and

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The company “Darnitsa” received the right to produce the drug for the treatment of COVID-19

Thus, the Ukrainian pharmaceutical company can produce and supply the above-mentioned drugs to 95 low- and middle-income countries of the world, in particular to Ukraine. Oral treatment developed by Pfizer is intended primarily for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 of mild to moderate severity who have a high risk of complications. It is used

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White phosphorus

White phosphorus burns. How to help victims and what not to do

The 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Convention for the Protection of War Victims (1949), as well as Protocol III to the “Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons” (1980), are considered the basic instrument for banning phosphorus munitions How does it work? There are several types of weapons, the main part of which is white phosphorus,

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From April 1, only pharmacists registered with eHealth will be able to sell antibiotics

As we wrote, starting from April 1, 2022, all antibiotics registered in Ukraine will be dispensed in pharmacies only if the patient has an electronic prescription. All antibacterial drugs will be prescribed exclusively by doctors, who will write patients an electronic prescription. It should be emphasized that the e-prescription will note the active substance (and

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Urolithin A improves muscular endurance and mitochondrial health: a new study

Urolithin A is a byproduct of human gut bacteria and dietary polyphenols found in pomegranates, berries, and nuts. Because diet, age, genetics, and disease affect the composition of the gut microbiome, people produce urolithin A at different rates. However, this compound is also produced in supplement form. In animal tests and molecular studies on humans,

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