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THE UN - INTENDED CHILD

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Adolf Hitler quoted that " Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population ." The current population of our World is  7.7 billion as of August  2019  according to the most recent United Nations estimates elaborated by Worldometers. By 2019, the densely populated country in the world is China( 18.41%) , followed by India( 17.71%) , United states of America( 4.27 %)  ,Indonesia( 3.51 %) . The lowest populated country is The Vatican city whose population is lesser than 1000 members, followed by  Tuvalu,  Nauru.  The rapid increase in population has simultaneously caused rapid increase in various problems globally.ranging from socio - economic differences and leads to various other problems such as malnutrition as equal amounts of nutrition cannot be met to each person of the world in right quantities , lacking healthcare facilities leading to spread of various dreadly infectious diseases from one p...

INFECTIOUS DISEASES - TERMINOLOGY - MODES OF TRANSMISSION

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Desiderius Erasmus quoted that ,  "Prevention is better than cure". It often takes less effort to prevent than to cure out something that has already happened. So it is always advisable taking care and investing in the well - being of ourselves rather than running behind it and chasing for the organism causing the discomfort to our body.  To prevent anything in prior, it is important to know and understand detailed information regarding the underlying conditions. 'Disease'- the word itself speaks about it. It is Dis - ease. It implies the lack of comfort and ease that a healthy person usually have on any normal day. Such discomfort is caused by various foreign bodies that enter into our body and targets on our immune system. When our body's immune system is compromised, gradually body tends to lose energy as the foreign organisms multiplies in greater numbers. To act upon such foreign bodies, we should know the way they attack and what does they do inside o...

Why the Pill and Bar ??

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THE PILL According to Oxford dictionary,a Pill is a small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole. Other synonyms for the term Pill  are Tablets, Pharmaceutical formulations, Capsule,Pellet, Lozenge, Pastille. But each formulation differs by structure or the state of formulation.  Broadly, the pharmaceutical formulations are classified as : 1) Solid dosage forms 2) Liquid dosage forms 3) Gaseous dosage forms A formulation to be sent out to the market for end users, requires to pass through various conditions, legal rules and regulations. Each stage in the preparation of formulations are very important and evaluation of each phase reflects the actual purpose of the formulation. For a tablet to be produced in the market, it has to be formulated in various forms starting from the chemical nature, chemical structure to formulation of the dosage forms under the principles of Pharmaceutics with the usage of instruments and equipment as described in Pharmace...