PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the cellular effects of four commercially available anti-inflammatory eye drops and their active components on human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) in vitro. METHODS The cellular effects of four eye drops (Bromfenac Sodium Hydrate Eye Drops, Pranoprofen Eye Drops, Diclofenac Sodium Eye Drops, and Tobramycin & Dex Eye Drops) and their corresponding active comp...

Dr Macgillivray thanked the Council for the honour they had done him, in asking him to open this discussion on the important subject of syphilis in relation to marriage. It had been his intention to review the subject exhaustively in a paper, but he had been informed by the Council that he must confine himself to viva voce remarks. He must therefore beg the Society to excuse him, if, with the s...

      Tropicamide is an antimuscarinic agent used as eye drops for refractive examinations. The aim of this study was to develop a simple and suitable analytical method for determination of tropicamide in eye drops in the presence of excipients. A zero-crossing third and fourth derivative spectrophotometric method was described for determination of tropicamide in eye drops. The measurements wer...

This paper addresses the biocompatibility of fluids and surfactants in the context of microfluidics and more specifically in a drops-in-drops system for mammalian cell based drug screening. In the drops-in-drops approach, three immiscible fluids are used to manipulate the flow of aqueous microliter-sized drops; it enables merging of drops containing cells with drops containing drugs within a Te...

Background & Aims: Abuse of topical anesthetic drops causes serious ocular complications. Obtaining information about the prevalence of anesthetic drops abuse among high risk groups specially welders is necessary for taking appropriate strategies for prevention. The present study aimed at determining the prevalence of anesthetic drops abuse among welders in Kerman. Methods: In this cross-se...

OBJECTIVE To assess the preferred methods for assessment among medical students at both preclinical and clinical stages of medical education and the possible correlates that promote these preferences. SUBJECTS AND METHODS All medical students from the third year onwards were surveyed. A self-administered anonymous questionnaire was designed to gather information on the preferred assessment me...

Sir,?The question of adequate nursing arrangements m up-country hospitals, and also in the chronic wards ?* the more important institutions in large centres, is one which seems to have hardly received sufficient attention. In many cases the general attitude has been to press for a regular nursing service on European lines, and in the meantime to be content with the ordinary untrained ward atten...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to evaluate the number of eyedrops available per bottle of a variety of commonly prescribed glaucoma medications. METHODS Six bottles of each glaucoma medication were tested: three each in the vertical and horizontal orientations. Bottles were housed in a customized force gauge apparatus designed to mimic ballpoint fingertip contact with a bottle. At a ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy and safety of azithromycin 1.5% eye drops in a paediatric population with purulent bacterial conjunctivitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a multicentre, international, randomised, investigator-masked study in 286 children with purulent discharge and bulbar conjunctival injection. Patients received either azithromycin 1.5% eye drops (twice daily for 3 days)...

The former Imperial County Services (ICS) Building is a rare case of an instrumented building damaged by an earthquake. In this paper, it is used to test a structural health monitoring method, based on detecting novelties in the recorded seismic response, by examining the correlation between their occurrence, spatial distribution and magnitude with the degree of the observed damage. The novelti...