Sleep mechanism and sleep-wake cycle
The sleep-wake cycle is an endogenous rhythm that gradually becomes locked to the day-night cycle through the first years of life. It is what is called a circadian rhythm so called because ‘circa’
The Nervous System: The brain
The receptors sensitive to changes in light, sound, mechanical and chemical stimuli subserve the sensory modalities of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
Onchocerciasis | river blindness
Onchocerciasis (or river blindness) is a parasitic disease cause by the filarial worm, Onchocerca volvulus. Man is the only known animal reservoir. The vector is a small black fly of the Simulium species.
AGOFER (Ferrous sulphate & Folic Acid)
Iron deficiency due to chronic blood loss. Pregnancy, foetus takes up to 600mg of iron from the mother even if she is iron deficient in various abnormalities of the gastro-intestinal tract
MEDIVEN (Betamethasone cream and ointment)
Indicated specially for eczema, psoriasis, lichen simplex, lichen planus, seborrhoeic dermatitis, contact sensitivity reactions and may be used as an adjunct to systemic steroid therapy in generalized erythroderma.
Reducing and enlarging pharmaceutical formulas
This type of calculation is performed when the amount of prescribed or ordered medicines deviate from the official quantities of a formula in a reference book
Dilution of liquid preparations (calculations)
The dilution of a liquid dosage form, as a solution or suspension, may be desired to provide a product strength more suitable for use by a particular patient (e.g., pediatric, elderly, those in disease states)
Cardiotonic drugs
Cardiotonic drugs are drugs, which increase cardiac contractile force during heart failure. Heart failure (HF) is a pathological state during which cardiac output is inadequate
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