Valentina Martinez

  Hi! Today i wanted to tell you about how much the pandemic has affected our mental health as students. According to a study by the Universidad de Chile, three out of four students say that they feel "worse or much worse compared to the pre-pandemic context." And why is that? The online system sometimes seems more comfortable, but it was something totally new for us, and there are also new problems to the student life that come with this change, such as connection issues, not having a quiet place to study or going to class, not being able to talk face to face to a professor when we may need it, and the list goes on. In addition to all these problems of being a student in a pandemic, there are more external problems, many parents lost their jobs, or families have different financial problems, and this obviously makes students have their focus in their families and not university, which is logical. This new way of living was really hard for everyone, but we have to car

Hi!!, I'm going to write about a topic that relates to chemistry and pharmacy but not so directly, based on a personal experience I had a while ago. I went to the dermatologist for a slight acne problem, with the idea that he would give me a cleaning routine, but he gave me an acne medication. The medication caused me many adverse effects, I had to use it for 3 months initially, it spent about a month, and I realized that the medication was not for me because after researching, I knew it was for acne much more severe than the one I had, so I had almost all the adverse effects that came out on the label and some are permanent damage. What I want to get to by telling this, is that there is still a lot of disinformation regarding the drugs that are prescribed by doctors, and I think this could be regulated in some way if there were more medical and pharmaceutical contact at the time of prescribing drugs so that no more cases like this happen. Thanks for reading, bye!