Microbial contamination of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and herbal products can be of various origins, so it has now been treated in a more careful scientific way, due to concerns regarding not only the microbiological ...

Chitosan is a natural biopolymer derived from the alkaline deacetylation of chitin, a polymer extracted from the exoskeleton of crustaceans such as crab and shrimp, chitosan has been used as a matrix of microparticles and ...

Acute or chronic pain and inflammation are common complaints in community pharmacies, and the use of anti-inflammatory drugs is extremely used to control them. Used indiscriminately, being by self-medication or by prescription, ...

Self-medication has become, over the years, a serious public health problem, due to the ease of information about a particular drug or the ease in obtaining it. With this practice it is possible to cause a series of risks ...

Metabolic Syndrome (MS) can be defined as a group of interrelated risk factors of metabolic origin that may contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and / or Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metabolic risk ...

Medicinal plants are those capable of alleviate or to cure diseases and have tradition of use as medicinal drug in a population or community. The practice of use of medicinal plants for therapeutic purposes is very old and ...

Inappropriate use of medicines is a serious public health problem worldwide. Antimicrobials are drugs that act by eliminating microorganisms (bactericidal) or inhibiting their growth (bacteriostatic). The objective of the ...

Food spoilage often occurs by micro-organisms, such as fungi, which are responsible for serious losses in production and health problems related to the consumption of these contaminated foods. Fusarium is one of the main ...

The request of drugs via litigation it is an alternative for obtaining a treatment. Finding support in the constitutional right to health and life, this process should not disregard the principles established by the universal ...

In the face of all the progress, the second cause of death among children and adolescents 1-19 years in Brazil is because of to cancer. The child cancer is quite different from that affect adults as it has better response ...