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What is medicine? There are prescription medicines and over-the-counter medicines. Prescription medicines can be dispensed from a pharmacy only on the prescription of a doctor, veterinarian, dentist, or a nurse with limited prescription rights.  You can buy over-the-counter medicines from a…

Assignment: Headache group assignment Objectives During the assignment, you will learn:  To assess the causes of headache.  To assess treatment methods for headache.  What things you should know about your medicine so that you can use it correctly. How to…

Assignment: Medicine advertisement vs. quackery advertisement Objectives During the assignment, you will learn:  To identify the differences between medicines and nutritional supplements.  To assess the reliability of the information presented in medicine and nutritional supplement advertisements.  Assignment options   Select one of the assignments below:  1. …

Assignment: Familiarisation with a package leaflet Objectives  During the assignment, you will learn:  to perceive what information the package leaflet inside the medicine package contains.  to find the required information about the medicine in its package leaflet. to understand that…

What do medicines do? Medicines prevent or cure illnesses and alleviate symptoms. There may be several possible ways of treating the same illness, with medication chosen according to an individual’s needs.  Medicines Cure illnesses  There are only a few curative medicines.…

Monitoring the effects of medicinal treatment   You should be aware of whether you can notice the effects of your medicine yourself, or whether the efficacy of the medicine must be monitored with laboratory tests, for example. It is also good…

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Checklist for using medicine The checklist summarises the things to consider when using the medicine! The interactive ThingLink image forms a learning path in numerical order, exploring ten different checkpoints on the medicine use checklist. You can open the ThingLink…