Foi realizada uma Revisão da Literatura nos períodos de 2011 a 2021 por meio de Pesquisa Bibliográfica visando atualização do estado da arte sobre automedicação da população idosa e a atuação do farmacêutico. A pesquisa foi realizada nas bases de dados PubMed/Medline, SciELO, LILACS e Google Scholar, utilizando os seguintes descritores de saúde: automedicação, autoadministração, efeitos adversos, hábitos de con...
A saúde mental é uma das áreas mais negligenciadas da saúde pública. Devido ao acesso limitado, poucas pessoas em todo o mundo têm acesso à serviços de saúde mental de qualidade. O uso de plantas medicinais e fitoterápicos para tratamento, cura e prevenção de doenças, é uma das mais antigas formas de terapia. O uso destas terapêuticas para o tratamento de transtornos da ansiedade possui grande destaque atual na...
Food Supplements (SA) are widely used by athletes and practitioners of physical activities, as a way to complement their diet, whether for gain, weight loss or other specific goals. Thermogenics, in this case, are composed of substances that have the ability to speed up metabolism, offering greater calorie burning and reducing appetite. On the other hand, they may contain substances, such as Synephrine, which c...
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). With the arrival of the new coranavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals became directly involved in the frontlines of the care, diagnosis and treatment of patients with COVID-19. The aim of this study was to analyze the challenges faced by pharmacists in assisting and combating SARS-CoV-2 infection in times of pandemic. An Integrat...
Methylphenidate hydrochloride [(dl-treo-metil-2-fenil-2- (2-piperidil) acetato], known as Ritalin, is a psychotropic drug commonly used by people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy for its treatment. As it is a drug that acts on the nervous system by releasing norepinephrine and dopamine in the synaptic clefts, causing an excitation in postsynaptic receptors and altering the use...
Herbal medicines have a long history of traditional use in Brazil, however most do not have proven efficacy and safety. The general objective of this research was to analyze the safety profile of herbal medicines in Brazil. This study is justified by the lack of elucidation about the safety of using these products, since some manufacturers of herbal medicines do not have the necessary resources to finance resea...
The interest in obtaining chalcones is due to the numerous pharmacological activities described in the literature for these compounds that are intermediates in the biosynthesis of flavonoids. Thus, the synthesis and characterization of several chalcones and derivatives become important for the development of compounds with antiproliferative activity. In this work, ten substances were synthesized, seven chalcone...