background: aluminum phosphide or rice tablet is one of the most common pesticides which leads to accidental or intentional acute intoxication and finally death. in this paper, we describe a successful management of intoxication with rice tablet in a young girl. case presentation: a 14-year-old girl was admitted due to consumption of rice tablet. gastric washing with two vials of sodium bicarbo...

Pharmacists have been splitting scored tablets to individualize and titrate dosages since the end of the pill-rolling era. We have generally accepted that scored tablets may be evenly divided, resulting in 2 half-tablets containing one-half of the whole tablet strength. Slight powdering is unavoidable, but it is generally accepted that loss of a few molecules of active drug is not likely to be ...

the effect of different kinds of surfactants in various concentrations incorporated in an inert matrix, on the release of procainamide hydrochloride, as a cationic model compound, was investigated in this study. sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium stearate as anionic surfactants, cetyl pyridinium chloride and cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide as cationic and span 60 and tween 80 as non-ionic surfact...

the dried fruit of terminalia chebula is widely used for its laxative properties. the objective of the present study was to examine the flowability and compressibility of terminalia chebula fruit powder, subsequently developing its tablet formulations by utilizing wet granulation and direct compression technology. initial studies on flowability and compressibility revealed that the fruit powder...

a sensitive fluorometric method for the determination of deferiprone (dfp) based on the formation of a luminescent complex with tb3+ ions in aqueous solutions is reported. the maximum excitation and emission wavelengths were 295 and 545 nm, respectively. the effects of various factors on the luminescence intensity of the system were investigated and optimized, then under the optimum conditions,...

background & aim: today, the use of medicinal plants has been growing because of less side effects than chemical drugs in the treatment of diseases particularly infectious diseases. according to the available scientific evidence, garlic is an effective anti-parasitic drug. in the present research will be study the inhibitory effect of garlic tablet on limnatis nilotica. material & metho...

BACKGROUND Tablet-based health care interventions have the potential to encourage patient care in a timelier manner, allow physicians convenient access to patient records, and provide an improved method for patient education. However, along with the continued adoption of tablet technologies, there is a concomitant need to develop protocols focusing on the configuration, management, and maintena...

BACKGROUND Tablet users may be at high risk of developing physical discomfort because of their usage behaviors and tablet design. OBJECTIVE Investigate the usage of tablets, variations in head and neck posture associated with different tablet tilt angles, and the association of tablet use with users' musculoskeletal discomfort. METHODS A survey of users' subjective perceptions conducted by ...

Introduction. The value of tablet computer use in medical education is an area of considerable interest, with preliminary investigations showing that the majority of medical trainees feel that tablet computers added value to the curriculum. This study investigated potential differences in tablet computer use between medical students and resident physicians. Materials & Methods. Data collection ...