Five minutes before the pharmacy closes: how can you manage to do a lot during this time?

The working day is almost over. The long hand of the clock counts down the last minutes until the pharmacy closes. You are already starting to go home… But then a customer walks in. And not alone. So you will have to stay after work again! This thought immediately spoils the mood.

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How to overcome insomnia without drugs

Doctors and researchers have long noted that ritualistic bedtime behavior, that is, performing the same habitual activities, often helps you fall asleep better than sleeping pills. People who suffer from chronic difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep experience significant relief from their symptoms by practicing personal hygiene, preparing a place to sleep, putting on pajamas,

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The pharmacy sales hall is a theater, the products in it are actors

As in this theater, the design of the trading floor and all its components should provide conditions for the “performance” of the commodity actors. It is necessary to create such an atmosphere that would shape the distinguishing features of your pharmacy in the consumer’s mind.

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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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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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A pilot project on pharmaceutical insurance starts

According to MoH estimates, Ukrainians annually spend about 60 billion UAH on medicines, and more than 50% of them come from medicines without proven efficacy and unjustified prescriptions. There are drugs that are not included in the “Affordable Drugs” program and their cost is not reimbursed under the reimbursement program. Voluntary pharmaceutical insurance will provide

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Men and women develop hypertension differently and require different medications

First-choice drugs for women and men Despite the same system of blood pressure control, its regulation of blood pressure in men and women is somewhat different: In women, a key factor in the development of hypertension is aldosterone, a hormone that causes our kidneys to retain more sodium and therefore more fluid, leading to higher

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