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VITAMIN DEFICIENTIES
Summary Vitamins are organic compounds, the presence of which in the body is essential for the proper course of many metabolic processes. For humans, these are exogenous compounds and must be supplied with food. A normal, well-balanced...
read moreCan the manufacturer of medicines produce the food supplement of natural origin?
Summary The use of various medications is possibly as old as human history. People have always used a variety of natural remedies to treat a wide variety of diseases, injuries and wounds. Knowledge about the therapeutic effects of these...
read moreWhat is HACCP?
WHAT IS HACCP? Summary Gone are the days when our food came from our own fields and orchards as well as backyard farms and sometimes from the hunting. Currently, most of the food we eat is produced on a large-scale industrial scale....
read moreGMP in pharmacy. What is this?
Summary Good Manufacturing Practice - GMP is a set of procedures aimed at ensuring the appropriate quality of manufactured drugs. For the first time this system was introduced by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The system was...
read moreWhat is serialization ?
From February 2019, a drug authenticity verification system was launched in the countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area. From that date, entrepreneurs are required to place a unique identifier on packages of...
read moreOriginal drug and its equivalent (generics)
A large percentage of drugs prescribed to us by a doctor have a number of equivalents called generics, which are often much cheaper than the original drug. If the doctor prescribes the patient a drug containing, for example, amlodipine...
read moreRickets in children
Summary Based on archaeological research, it can be concluded that skeletal changes caused by rickets already existed in antiquity. The disease causing skeletal deformities was first described in 1645 by Daniel Whistler. As he observed it...
read moreGluten intolerance
Summary Today we invite you to the entry about gluten, which was created at the request of one of our readers. We will explain what gluten is, where it occurs, and you will find answers to such questions as the forms of gluten...
read moreDisorders of the calcium economy. Tetany
The role of calcium in the body Calcium is one of the elements essential for the functioning of the human body. Although it is usually associated with the main building block of bones, it plays far more roles in our body. Transmission of...
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