Article categories : "Toxicology / Pharmacology"

• Biology
• Toxicology / Pharmacology

6 min

Published the 23/02/2022

Giving everything you've got: donating blood

Blood donation is nowadays a common practice around the world. It is mostly done by unpaid volunteers who donate blood for a community supply, donating for various reasons: as a form of charity, general awareness for others in need, helping a friend or a relative, and sometim [...]

• Toxicology / Pharmacology
• Biology

5 min

Published the 25/08/2021

At the origin of drugs

Whether it is occasional or more regular, medications are part of our lives. Capsules, tablets, syrups, gels, creams, the list goes on! But before arriving in our medicine cabinets, there are many steps involved in their design. The first one is the idea of ​​the mole [...]

• Toxicology / Pharmacology

Published the 08/11/2020

Homeopathy, a controversial practice Homeopathy has its supporters and detractors.

Why these dissensions? Let's go back to the sources of this therapy in order to better understand it. The term homeopathy comes from the Greek "homoios" which means: identical to. It treats illnesses by the like and is opposed to allopathy which treats illness [...]