theme 09/01/1995 (1995)

Theme of the transfer: Medicines and self-medication.

Guests of the program:

1. Eduard Babayan - Chairman of the Standing Committee on Drug Control, Academician of RAMS, Professor.

2.Anatoly Zaprudnov - chief pediatrician of Moscow, professor, doctor of medical sciences.

The main issues discussed in the studio:

1.What should be understood by self-medication?

2.Why today a large number of medicines are sold without prescriptions?

3.How and who is composing the annotations to the medicines?

4.What is the first thing you should pay attention to in the annotation?

5.What to do with confusing packaging and annotations?

6. Why is there a lot of goods in the pharmacies that have nothing to do with medicine in principle?

7. What are the main functions of the Russian Pharmaceutical Committee?

8.How do you treat different kinds of folk remedies and recipes?

9. What is recommended for alcohol poisoning?

10. How acute is the problem of drug addiction today?

11. Do I need to take drugs containing narcotic substances?

12.Why today in pharmacies such a wide range of prices?

13. What is the "placebo effect"?

Plots:

1. The survey on the street: "How do you feel about self-treatment?"

2.About acute drug poisoning.

Report from the Institute Sklifosovsky.

3. About drugs as a disease of the 20th century.

4. Chronicle.

About the history of Moscow pharmacies

5. About non-traditional methods and means of treatment.

The program uses fragments from feature films:

1. "The Diamond Arm", directed by A.Gaydai.

2. "Three in a boat, not counting a dog", director N. Birman