Education in Medical Biochemistry in Serbia.

Medical biochemistry is the usual name for clinical biochemistry or clinical chemistry in Serbia. Medical biochemistry laboratories and medical biochemists as a profession are part of Health Care System and are regulated through: the Health Care Law and rules issued by the Chamber of Medical Biochemists of Serbia. The first continuous and organized education for Medical Biochemists in Serbia dates from 1945, when Department of Medical Biochemistry was established at Pharmaceutical Faculty in Belgrade.

Plasma and urinary serotonin and 5-hydroxyindol-3-acetic acid in adults with migraine and tension-type headache.

Each headache can be a complex diagnostic, therapeutic, prognostic and social problem. The pain in the head can be connected with many organic and non-organic causes. In this work, the levels of plasma and urinary free 5-HT and 5-HIAA were investigated in eight migraine (aged 23-59 years) and ten tension-type headache suffers (aged 38-61 years).