Misaligned bupivacaine ampoule labels obscuring the expiry date - manufacturer's reply

The expiry date of man: a synthesis of evolutionary biology and public health.

In industrialised countries, mortality and morbidity are dominated by age related chronic degenerative diseases. The health and health care needs of future populations will be heavily determined by these conditions of old age. Two opposite scenarios of future morbidity exist: morbidity might decrease ("compress"), because life span is limited, and the incidence of disease is postponed. Or morbi...

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[Fractional flow reserve in diabetics: does it have an expiry date?].

Assessing the clinical importance of intermediate coronary stenosis, defined as a luminal obstruction of 40% to 70%, is a challenge for the interventional cardiologist. Coronary angiography correlates poorly with the functional importance of epicardial coronary disease, especially in patients with stenosis at the threshold of significance. Post-mortem studies have demonstrated that the coronary...

Influence of white mineral trioxide aggregate on inflammatory cells before and after expiry date.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to compare the effect of subcutaneously implanted white mineral trioxide aggregate (WMTA) on inflammatory reactions before and after expiry date. METHODS Fifty Wistar rats were used in this study. Polyethylene tubes were filled with WMTA with expiry dates of 2008, 2009, and 2011, and empty ones serving as the controls were implanted into the subcutaneous...

A Vision Approach for Expiry Date Recognition using Stretched Gabor Features

Product-expiry date represent important information for products consumption. They must contain clear information in the label. The expiry date information stamped on the cover of product faced some challenges due to their writing in pencil and distorted characters. In this paper, an automated vision approach for recognizing expiry date numerals of industrial product is presented. The system co...