BACKGROUND New technologies provide opportunities for the delivery of broad, flexible interventions with older adults. Focus groups were conducted to: (1) understand older adults' familiarity with, and barriers to, interacting with new technologies and tablets; and (2) utilize user-engagement in refining an intervention protocol. METHODS Eighteen older adults (65-76 years old; 83.3% female) w...

Inhalation of foreign bodies is a well recognised problem' but, surprisingly, the aspiration of tablets is rarely reported. There have been two reports in foreign publications of aspiration of sustained release tablets,23 which because of their formulation can remain intact in the respiratory tract for prolonged periods. We report two cases in which sustained release bronchodilator tablets have...

BACKGROUND Danlou tablets, a patented Chinese Medicine, have been long approved for the treatment of ischemic heart disease in China. While numerous empirical observations suggested Danlou tablets could decrease frequency and duration of angina pectoris attacks, evidence supporting its efficacy on cardiac remodeling remains inadequate. Therefore, this pilot trial was designed to determine wheth...

Most commonly used conventional dosage forms are tablets and capsules. Compressed tablets are the most widely used dosage forms due to its numerous advantages. They are convenient, easy to administer, economic, tamper-proof, easy to packing and transport and more stable than other oral dosage forms [1]. Also tablets have certain special release profile products such as enteric or delayed releas...

Direct tableting is simpler and more cost-effective from the point of view of good manufacturing practice (GMP) than wet granulation or dry compacting. Moreover, the use of dry plant extracts in the process of direct tableting, omitting granulation, decreases the possibility of biological activity loss of active substances. Thus, pharmaceutical industry uses this particular process more and mor...

PURPOSE To determine, from a societal perspective, the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of concentrated cranberry tablets, versus cranberry juice, versus placebo used as prophylaxis against lower urinary tract infection (UTI) in adult women. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred fifty sexually active women aged 21 through 72 years were randomized for one year to one of three groups of prophyl...

In this work, starch acetate and propanoate derivatives with moderate degree of substitution were synthesized and characterized for employment as matrix formers for sustained release from tablets. Matrix tablets were prepared from cospray-dried and simple physical mixtures of starch/starch derivatives and theophylline as a model drug. The release was rapid for matrix tablets prepared from simpl...

Advances in digital technology for the graphic and textual representation of manuscripts have not, until recently, been applied to the worldʼs oldest manuscripts, cuneiform tablets. This is due in large part both to the three-dimensional nature of cuneiform tablets and to the complexity of the cuneiform script system. The Digital Hammurabi Project and the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding annou...

Its empirical formula is C24H28N2O5•HCl, and its molecular weight is 460.96. Benazeprilat, the active metabolite of benazepril, is a non-sulfhydryl angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. Benazepril is converted to benazeprilat by hepatic cleavage of the ester group. Lotensin is supplied as tablets containing 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg, and 40 mg of benazepril hydrochloride for oral administration. Th...

Ranging from customer service to board presentations, tablets increasingly penetrate the customer advisory process. Past research on mobile banking solutions focused on their potentials in an educational setting, on the advisory process, or on the design of a tablet solution in the retail banking sector. However, little research exists on the impact of tablets on the advisory process in p...