Free radical and antioxidant are very interesting field of research in other country as in Viet Nam. They are mentioned as a new pathogennic agent. Objectives: Determination of total antioxidant capacity in plasma. Methods: Lag-time assay was established to measure Total Antioxidants Capacity (TAC) in human plasma of healthy volunteers (6 males, 4 females, aged 29,8+-5,2). Results: - TAC was 513.3+/-79.64 mM Trolox equivalents. TAC was significantly higher in men (568.83+/-41.08 mM Trolox equivalents) in comparison with women (430.00+/-28.15 mM Trolox equivalents). A main reason was a higher concentration of uric acid in men compared with women (397.5+-79.86 mM versus 245+-33.16 mM). Conclusions: TAC in plasma after drinking vegetable juice for 1 week (547.8+-80.67 mM Trolox equivalents) was significantly higher in comparison with before (513.3+-79.64 mM Trolox equivalents).
Antioxidants, Plasma

The unreasonable use of antibiotic is one among factors to increase antibiotic resistance situation in the world now. In Viet Nam, abuse use of drugs is a worried issue, the diseases models in the tropical countries is always in top, shortage of dose of antibiotic, lack of necessary legal documents. People ‘s knowledge of reasonable use drug is shorten. The use of safety drugs are interested by all society, in which relating to: physician, supplier and users, beside of that, other factors as legal system, economic factor and cultural social environmental factor
Medicine ; Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Street Drugs ; drugs ; Health Services Misuse

The retail price of some domestic produced medicines had the tendency to increase in line with the increase rate of consumption commodities from 2001 to April 2004. Some kinds of medicines had surveyed as follow: antibiotics; vitamines; reliever; antifebrile; anti- inflamatory; digestion drug, and other medicines. The variation of price of those medicines at that time compared with the rate of consumption commodities, the variation of rate of USA and EURO. The price of consumption commodities increased rate of 3.61% in 2002 compared with 2001. the price increased rate of 3.03% compared with 2003 and during 3 months of 2004 the price of consumption commodities increased 5.40% compared with 2003
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Commerce ;

From the year 2001 to April 2004, the price medicines had got the tendency to increase. From May 2001 to Dec. 2002 the price seemed to be stable or changed no much, from 2003 the price tended to in crease, especially in March and April, then increased continously in early 2004 with an average rate of 30% from March 2003 to March 2004 due to the variation of the value of currency, particularly the euro, the shortage of management of medicinal supply the monopolist of foreign firms, the asynchronized state of law
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Social Marketing ; Medicine

In 10 years recently, there is a big effort in the activities for investment of technological science, modernization of manufacture line and improvement the quality of the production. However, how does the effect of these activities that impact to each enterprise in particular and pharmacy in general still make a question without answer. So, researching and applying effectively evaluation methods in activities for investment for each enterprise in particular and pharmacy in general are necessary and useful matter
Pharmacy, Technology

Tissue array is a technique by taking and transfering pieces of tissue from different block paraffin to new block. After cutting the authors get a slice with a lot of different samples. This technique saves time, chemistry and work. Using this technique to study 220 Gastric cancer samples. The expression of protein P53 in Gastric cancer tissue is 52.3%. In situ hybridization was used to find the EBERs (EBV Encoded small RNAs) of EBV in Gastric cancer tissue
Tissue Array Analysis ; Epstein-Barr Virus Infections ; Stomach Neoplasms

With scrap and easy to find material, the author had designed a tissue array machine which could make specimens as good as being made by imported machine. Method of making tissue array: making holes array on paraffin bar. Implement tissue array technique on holes array on paraffin bar. Cut, process and dye specimen normally. Because the tissue array technique gives result as accurate as the normal specimen dying technique does (the results of two method matched in 94% of specimens) it should apply the tissue array technique in studying
Tissue Array Analysis ; Equipment and Supplies

A study on private traditional medicine network in Ha Noi city was conducted from February 1998 to April 1998. Result showed that there are 396 private traditional medicine outlets to date in the urban area of Hanoi focusing in Hoankiem, Dongda, Haibatrung, Badinh districts with 31.4%, 27.3%, 19.2%, 12.9%, respectively. In the new established districts, the number of outlets is lower. Generally, The working time and the address of the outlets are not appropriated with the original application registered. Traditional medicine providers include good experienced traditional physician, consultations and prescribers, traditional medicine qualified doctors with 28.1%, 24.3%, 21.8% respectively, and the rest is roughly prepared traditional medicine wholesalers and retailers. Official regulations for traditional medicine are not uniform and systematical raising difficulties on control and administration.
Medicine, Traditional ; Practice Management

A study on buying drug of consumers at 30 randomly selected public and private drug outlets in Hue City had been conducted from February 1997 to May 1997. Results showed: 70.5% of consumers bought without prescription, in which 10% with at least one injection, 43.7% with antibiotics. 29.5% of consumers bought drugs with prescriptions, in which 55.0% with antibiotics, including 21.2% with at least two antibiotics. The average number and value of drug per prescription is 3.2 and about 4 USD, respectively. 36.1% drug are prescribed under generic names and 64.5% are in Essential drug list. Some recommendations had been cited.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Residence Characteristics

A multi intervention approach to rational use of drug through private practitioners of traditional medicines. The education and enforcement of regulation interventions was designed to assist the pharmacy staff in choosing appropriate treatment option and comply with the other elements of Good Pharmacy Practice. Results from interventions will be used to provide policy-markers with a scientific basis for decisions relating to rational use of drug, which is one of main objectives in national drug policy in Vietnam.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Medicine, Traditional