this study was performed to explore the presence of heavy metals in some popular herbal medicines of the iranian market. primarily, this study was planned to do the task by the usp method. in the second step, those plants which contained more than 10 ppm of total heavy metals were analyzed by atomic absorption method. in this study, 43 popular herbal medicines were investigated according to the...

To be honest, I thought this would be a lost cause. Even after skipping a New Drugs and Devices essay in 2012, I figured that I would have to search long and hard to find 10 new things that emergency practitioners needed to know about. Although there were no true blockbuster medications for emergency physicians, I nonetheless found 10 medicines that we probably should know, along with a new dev...

In the practice of chemical-toxicological analysis, cases poisoning people with certain antihelmintic drugs have become more frequent. Some antihelmintics are on WHO Model List Essential Medicines, World Health Organization's list essential medicines, which lists most effective, safest and affordable medicines. Despite worldwide recognition, effectiveness, availability low cost, they an importa...

injection is one of the most common medical procedures in the health sector. annually up to 16 billion injections are prescribed in low- and middle-income countries (lmics), many of them are not necessary for the patients, increase the healthcare costs and may result in side effects. currently over 40% of outpatient prescriptions in iran contain at least one injectable medicine. to address the ...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequitable access to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly due limited capabilities for local manufacture. Aim: To describe priority medicine lists and critical skill sets required an emergency compounding of training programme. Methods: An evaluation the readiness programme University Namibia pharmacy graduates. main outcomes were enhanced c...

statement of problem: recurrent aphthous stomatitis (ras) is one of the most common diseases affecting the oral mucosa. many topical and systemic medications used to treat ras have adverse local and systemic effects. chamomill (kamillosan) has been shown to be an effective drug, without any noticeable side effects. purpose: the aim of present study was to assess the efficacy of a chamomill mout...

OBJECTIVE To present the legal and professional issues related to nurse administration of drugs according to protocols, and describe the implementation and initial audit findings of such a scheme. SETTING Accident and emergency (A&E) department of a district general hospital. METHODS Analysis of legal and professional opinion. Protocols acceptable to the medical, nursing, and pharmacy profe...

Traffic congestion worldwide has led to loss of human lives due to failure in transporting accident victims, critical patients, medical equipment and medicines on time. With the unending growth in vehicular traffic everywhere, Internet of Things (IOT) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) have embarked as a promising platform for an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS). Many researches h...