Author name: Ольга ОНИСЬКО

Ольга ОНИСЬКО
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin and hospitals in Philadelphia

The first public hospital and the first hospital pharmacy appeared in the United States as early as colonial times. Benjamin Franklin played an important role in their fate. What did Benjamin Franklin think? From 1730 until U.S. independence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the fastest growing city among the 13 British colonies. During this time, its population […]

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School of Quantitative Methods

School of Quantitative Methods

The quantitative methods school introduced models, symbols, formulas and quantitative values into management theory, which was based on reasoning and observation. School of quantitative methods: formation Leonid Kantorovich, the “most unknown” Nobel laureate of Soviet times, is considered the founder of the school of quantitative methods. He was born in 1912 in St. Petersburg and […]

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An elderly man swimming

Bierce criteria: drugs that are not recommended for elderly patients

A quarter of a century ago, Dr. Mark Beers’ research team published the first list of drugs to avoid in elderly patients. The list was subsequently called the Beers Criteria. Drugs Rationale and recommendations Non-selective cyclooxygenase NSAIDs for oral use Increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding or peptic ulcer disease in high-risk groups. Use of a […]

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Erythremia

Erythremia is a disease of excess blood

What is Erythremia? Another name for erythremia is true polycythemia, which comes from the Greek words “many”, “cell” and “blood”, which quite reflects the essence of the problem. The fact is that this disease is a benign tumor process of the hematopoietic system, associated with excessive myeloproliferation, ie, hyperplasia of the cellular elements of the […]

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Biodesign

Biodesign and microorganisms

Biodesign for a healthy life In the summer of 2018, specialists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Design Lab together with the sports brand Puma presented an experimental biodesign collection Adaptive Dynamics. Its “face” became sneakers that, tracking the physiological indicators of athletes, provide them with individual adjustment of “climate control”. The upper part of […]

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