The aim of the study was to determine the presence of risk factors for developing hypertension in the University of Belgrade student population whose faculties do not provide the opportunity to learn about these factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted during November and December 2015 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Electric Engineering and the Faculty of Law. The respondents filled in a questionnaire, which was approved by the Ethics Committee for bio-medical research from the Faculty of Pharmacy. The study included 487 students. 56.7% were male students. Most of the respondents studied Law (210), followed by Mechanical Engineering (168) and Electrical Engineering (109). 75.8% of respondents consumed salty snacks, while 34.5% of them changed their habits of consuming snacks during the examination period. Fish was consumed less than once a week by 39.8% of the respondents, whereas 19.9% of them consumed candies every day. 63.9% consumed fast food. Energy drinks were not consumed by the majority (52.2%), while 22.4% only consumed them before an exam. The research results indicated the presence of reversible risk factors in the examined student population. In order to prevent the development of hypertension in the elderly population and reduce the number of risk factors present, it is necessary to develop educational programs for proper diet and adequate intake of food groups.

Objective: Stem cells could be defined as cell with an extraordinary capacity for self-renewal and the ability to differentiate into different cell types. The aim of this study is to examine students' opinion about the use of stem cells as health technologies in disease treatment and radical life extension. Method: Prospective cross-sectional study was conducted as a questionnaire, which was filled anonimly and voluntarily. Results: In this study 655 respondents have participated, with an average age 21.9±}1.8 years. High percentage distribution was concluded with most of the statements, with especially positive attitude towards the preservation of stem cells for their own treatment (84.2%), and treatment of their families (85.4%). Dominantly neutral attitude was expressed according to a statement about the reliability of stem cells and doubts about their implementation.(49.4%).There was no statistically significant difference in students' opinion between different faculties. Conclusion: It is important to evaluate students' opinion because it can obtain information on how the respondents agree with the potential implementation of health technology in the future and, accordingly, whether it is justified to continue further research. We should be more dedicated to informing students in the future, and this type of research should be implemented on a wider population to obtain the relevant results and perform more reliable conclusion.

Summary Introduction: The pharmacists played an important role in the development of biochemistry as applied chemistry in Serbia. What is more, the first seven state chemists in Ser bia were pharmacists. State chemists performed the chemicaltoxicological analysis as well as some medical and biochemical ones. When it comes to the education of medical biochemists as health workers, the period after the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century should be taken into account because that is when the training of pharmaceutical staff of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, begins on the territory of Serbia. This paper presents the development of medical biochemistry through the development of curriculum, personnel and literature since the foundation of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Serbia until today. Objective: The aim of this paper is to present the historical development of biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, through analysis of three indicators: undergraduate and postgraduate education of medical biochemists, teaching literature and professional associations and trade associations. Method: The method of direct data was applied in this paper. Also, desktop analysis was used for analyzing of secondary data, regulations, curricula, documents and bibliographic material. Desktop research was conducted and based on the following sources: Archives of the University of Belgrade- Faculty of Pharmacy, Museum of the History of Pharmacy at the University of Belgrade-Faculty of Pharmacy, the Society of Medical Biochemists of Serbia and the Serbian Chamber of Biochemists. Results and conclusion: The curricula, the Bologna process of improving education, the expansion of the range of subjects, the number of students, professional literature for teaching biochemistry, as well as professional associations and trade associations are presented through the results. Krotak sadržaj Uvod: Značajnu ulogu u razvoju biohemije kao primenjene hemije dali su farmaceuti, pa su čak prvih sedam državnih hemičara u Srbiji bili apotekari. Državni hemičar obavljao je hemijsko-toksikološke analize kao i neke medicinsko-bio- hemijske analize. O školovanju medicinskih biohemičara kao zdravstvenih radnika može se govoriti od druge polovine XX veka, kada na teritoriji Srbije počinje školovanje farmaceutskog kadra na Farmaceutskom fakultetu u Beogradu. U radu je prikazan razvoj medicinske biohemije kroz razvoj nastavnih planova i programa, stručnog kadra i literature na Farmaceutskom fakultetu u Beogradu od njegovog osnivanja do danas. Cilj: Cilj rada je da se prikaže istorijski razvoj biohemije na Farmaceutskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu analizom tri indikatora: dodiplomskog i poslediplomskog obrazovanja medicinskih biohemičara; nastavne literature i stručnih udruženja i strukovnih asocijacija. Metode: U radu je primenjena metoda direktnih podataka i, gde je bilo potrebno, korišćena je desktop analiza pomoću koje su analizirani sekundarni podaci, uredbe, nastavni planovi i programi, dokumenta i bibliografska grada. Desktop istraživanje je realizovano na osnovu slededh izvora: Arhive Univerziteta u Beogradu - Farmaceutskog fakulteta, Muzeja za istoriju farmacije Univerziteta u Beogradu - Farmaceutskog fakulteta, Društva medicinskih biohemičara Srbije i Komore biohemičara Srbije. Rezultati i zaključak: Kroz rezultate prikazani su nastavni planovi i programi, Bolonjski proces unapređenja nastave, širenje opsega predmeta, broj studenata, stručna literatura za nastavu iz biohemije i stručna udruženja i strukovne asocijacije.

Health literacy measurement means appliance of different instruments which determine the degree of understanding of read and written information, as well as numerical skills necessary for making relevant health decisions. The objective of this study is to identify instruments which are used to measure health literacy at a primary healthcare level, to compare them and analyze their structure in order to examine their relevance for health literacy evaluation in public pharmacies. Collection of data related to health literacy is done by literature search, and for every instrument for measuring health literacy given is its content and description of performance and conditions for use (with special view if it is applicable in pharmacy settings). Analysis of instruments is done by method of comparison. There were identified 5 instruments for direct measuring of health literacy and each could be used in pharmacy settings. It was concluded that the NVS (Newest Vital Sign) which measures functional and critical health literacy in a very short time would be the most suitable instrument for health literacy measurement in pharmacy settings.

Health conditions in Vranje during the Ottoman rule were similar to the situation in the rest of Serbia at that time with poor organized health services. People asked for help for the treatment of "hakims", barbers, doctors and selfeducated folk healers. In the stores that were out of control, in addition to other goods, many medicines, raw materials for making medicines and poisons could be procured from Greece and Turkey. In the 20th century people could still remember various balms, splash, teas, syrups and "madzun" that could be bought in the shops of that time. At the beginning of the 19th century in Vranje, as well as in Serbia, the only help for the sick was provided by Greek self-taught healers, "kaloijatri". There was a self-taught folk healer Mika Stosi who became known in Vranje as "hakim"Mika. "Hakim" Mika died in Constantinople in 1854, where he had gone in order to solve the national status for the Municipality of Vranje . He conveyed his knowledge to his sons Zafir and Dimitrije. Dimitrije was successfully practicing medicine for ten years after his father's death, until a prominent Turk child who was treated by Dimitrije died. Fearing that he would be blamed for the child’s death, "hakim Dimitra " as he was called, committed suicide . A Turkish medical assistant Naum Markovi , who graduated from Medical School in Constantinople, came to Vranje in 1862 . Being a medical assistant (at that time a Turkish title "felcer" was used for this educational degree), he had the right to examine and treat patients and to prepare and sell medicines. In his twofloor house he opened an outpatient department and a pharmacy store where he prepared various preparations in the form of decocts and infusions and many others. Felcer Naum regularly went to Thessaloniki and Constantinople in order to supply his shop with the necessary materials and drugs of herbal, animal and mineral origin. The aim of this paper was to present the historical development of the first community pharmacy in Vranje with the focus on its personnel, legal conditions and pharmacy regulations from the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The method of historical analysis was employed. Manual documentary analysis of original sources and desk research analysis from the secondary sources were conducted.

Pharmacists as the most accessible health care professionals in outpatient settings can improve palliative patient care. The aim of this review was to assess utility of pharmacists (the effectiveness of pharmacists' interventions) on clinical outcomes of patients in palliative care at all levels of health care and in home care. Two electronic databases were searched: PubMed and SCOPUS (last searched August 2014). Primary studies, of any type of research design, in English, related to clinical outcomes of patients in palliative care and pharmacists' interventions were eligible. Studies that used surrogate outcome measures, such as number of pharmacists' recommendations were excluded. A total of 764 reports were found, and only three of them met our inclusion criteria. All of them assessed effects of pharmacists' interventions in outpatient settings and were case series. Symptoms improvement and stabilization of patients' conditions has been the main utility of pharmacists' interventions. Assessed quality of two studies was moderate, and one study had low quality. As number of studies and quality of the evidence were limited, and results of reviewed studies indicate that pharmacists' interventions potentially could improve clinical outcomes of patients in palliative care, more research is needed to provide evidences in this field .

INTRODUCTION In Serbia, there have been no broad campaigns or educational programs focused on adolescents' sun protection. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess whether an educational program would have impact on changes of attitudes and sun-protective behaviors of high school students. More specific aim was to examine whether sex and age differences in sun behavior exists. METHODS Educational program was designed to provoke changes in attitudes towards sun protection and sun behavior. The investigation was carried out in Belgrade, Serbia in two educational cycles, during spring 2007 and 2008. Sixteen- and 17-year old high schools students were targeted and assessed before and after the educational intervention by means of self-report questionnaire designed for this study (about skin types and sun behavior). The students' attitudes towards sun protection and sun behavior before and after the educational intervention were compared and analyzed by the Pearson's chi-square test and logistic regression analyses. In the second educational cycle (2008) age and gender differences in sun behavior were analyzed. RESULTS Overall 3205 students in 2007, and 2155 students in 2008 year from 11 high schools participated. A statistically significant behavior change was observed for the use of sunglasses in 2007--the number of students using them increased from 41.6% to 45.6% (p < 0.05). There were no significant changes in other ways of protection i.e. sunscreen use, protective clothes or staying in shade. CONCLUSION Educational program had an impact, but broader activities involving schools, local communities and media are needed for significant changes in sun behavior and attitude.