Medicine administration

Chronic conditions in older adults force them to consume several drugs at the same time. It should be noted that most drugs have side effects, which despite being minimal, can affect the health of...

Analgesics in the elderly

Due to advanced age, the elderly require different therapeutic strategies for pain. These strategies are due to a greater extent to metabolism and sensitivity due to age, concomitant diseases, the...

Antibiotics and antihypertensives alter the pressure

To combine antibiotics Y antihypertensive increases the risk of hospitalization in older adults, said a study by the Research Institute Sunnybrook and the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences of...

So, if the flu is caused by the influenza virus, can we say that it is the same type of medication?

In the dictionary we find the meaning of antiviral as a medicine that is used in the treatment of diseases caused by a virus.Y anti-flu, as a medicine used to prevent or fight the flu. So, if the...

New anticoagulant against atrial fibrillation approved

The Cofepris (Federal Commission for the Protection of Sanitary Risks), authorized the registration of dabigatran etexilate to prevent the cerebral vascular event in patients with atrial...

Corticosteroids support hormone production

Currently the employment of corticosteroids has spread to many diseases because they mimic the effects of hormones that the body naturally produces in Kidney glands.They influence the functioning of...

Drugs and routes of administration

The routes of administration of the medicines are the entry routes to organism influencing the latency, intensity and duration of the pharmacological effect. According to Dr. Yamilka L. Sánchez, an...

Aging for transplants reverts aging

A drug What is currently used to reduce the organism's rejection of transplanted organs could have a beneficial impact on delaying the normal process of human aging, says a study published in the...

Extreme cleaning can harm health

People overexposed to antibacterial soaps with Triclosan (present in soaps, toothpastes, pens, diaper bags and medical devices), may suffer a greater number of allergies. In addition, the Bisphenol-A...

It is not recommended to crush medicines

If you are one of the people who have difficulties swallow and believes that starting or shredding the medicines gets the same effect, is wrong.According to a group of researchers from the Faculty of...

What are the pads' covers for?

The different types of covers in the tablets comply purposes differentFor example:Sugar-coated and water-soluble film masks mask active ingredients with unpleasant odors and / or flavors or those...

Dose

When a Muscle pain it is strong or complicated infection in the throat, they sure have prescribed it for you, but, do you know what are the uses of Naproxen Sodium?. Naproxen is aanalgesic to treat...

Ointments, pills, capsules or suppositories

The form is the least. It's about that the medicines be tools Y insurance, therefore they are prepared in different ways. A documents of the pharmaceutical company Roche, explains what are the...

Why elders confuse medicines

Occasionally, the industry pharmaceutical, in its eagerness to modernize the presentations, colors and formats of your medicines, incurs the error of not taking into account the opinion of older...

Treatment against influenza

There are several myths and realities of the Influenza vaccine, since in the last years this disease became very important due to its media impact.Influenza is an infection caused by a virus that is...

Truths of generic medicines

A generic drug is one copy of a brand medicine and has its same effects. According to the National Institutes of Health and the Office for Women's Health of the United States Food and Drug...