The most common pharmaceutical formulations for antibiotics are the tablets and hard gelatin capsules. The typical shelflife of these dosage forms is five years. In the most countries of the world it is required by the law that the expired medications have to be disposed following the respective regulations. Furthermore, it is common sense not to use the expired medications. The present study w...

It is well known that external chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation is frequently associated with various complications. These complications predominantly involve trauma to the heart, lungs, and chest wall, whereas cases involving intra-abdominal injury are much less frequent. The present report describes a rare case of a female patient with severe hemoperitoneum associated wi...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the validity of the dipstick method (Mossman Associates Inc. USA) and the expired CO method to distinguish between smokers and nonsmokers. We also elucidated the related factors of the two methods. METHODS This study included 244 smokers and 50 ex-smokers, recruited from smoking cessation clinics at 4 local public health centers, who had quit for over 4 weeks. We ca...

1 / FDA Consume r Hea l t h In fo r ma t ion / U . S . F ood and D r ug Admin i s t r a t ion DECEMBER 14 , 2007 Some of the Internet sites that sell pet drugs represent legitimate, reputable pharmacies, says Martine Hartogensis, D.V.M., Promotion and Advertising Liaison for FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). But others are fronts for unscrupulous businesses operating against the law. ...

The shelf-life of the product need to be evaluated according commercialization product. Shelf-life assessment can done using acceleration method (Accelerated Testing) with critical moisture content approach. This research used predict expired date energy bar based banana. required data such as initial water content, solid weight product, surface area packaging, permeability vapor saturated pres...