1052 results about "Pill" patented technology

A prescription drug monitoring/dispensing device ensures prescription medication housed within is taken only as directed, and not abused or sold on the streets. The device serves as an intricately guarded casing that may only dispense the preprogrammed dosage amounts at preset times, as directed by a prescribing physician. The device may include a housing having a biometric finger scanner and a display screen in communication therewith, a loading tube capable of holding a pill therein, a rotating hub in communication with the loading tube, a rotating disc in communication with the loading tube, and an exit port capable of dispensing the pill out from the housing.

A medicine dispensing system is provided that comprises of a medicine container with an inbuilt pill dispensing assembly which automatically dispenses a prescribed dose of medicine at prescribed times. It alerts the patient when a dose of medicine has been dispensed. The alert signal is a local audio or visual alarm or a remote reminder by phone, wireless network or internet. A modem and communication ports are provided which enable the said medicine container to communicate with remote parties like health care professionals and medical devices such as glucose meter. This feature allows remote medicine management, disease management and health education. An internal microprocessor and a memory chip control and execute electronic functions of the said medicine container. Sensors are provided to detect whether a dose has been dispensed and whether it is consumed. The said medicine container is able to record, analyze and report patient's compliance with a medicine regimen.

The invention relates to highly concentrated DHA and EPA formulations in a soft gel capsule. A capsule may contain at least 80% omega-3 fatty acids, salts or derivatives thereof, where EPA and DHA are present in relative amounts of greater than or equal to 3:1 or less than or equal to 1:3, and constitute at least 75% to greater than 95% of the total fatty acids present in the capsule. Capsules of the invention may be provided in a blister package so as to provide clean and protected oils that are easy to travel with. Compliance is improved with one-pill-a-day dosing and the days of the week imprinted on the foil packing. Anitoxidant protection may be provided by rosemary and vitamin C. The invention also provides a methods of treatment, modulation or prophalaxis of coronary disease, altering serum LDL-cholesterol and/or HDL-cholesterol, lowering serum triglycerides, lowering blood pressure, pulse rate, altering the activity of the blood coagulation factor VII complex, mild hypertension, protection from cyclosporine toxicity in kidney transplant, rheumatoid arthritis, development and progression of retinopathy, hypertriglyceridemia, and neurological disorders in a subject.

A vacuum driven pill counter having a counter housing with a pill discharge aperture formed therein. vacuum disk is rotatably positioned in the housing and has a front wall including a pill aperture and an agitating finger extending outwardly from the front wall. A vacuum source is positioned in communication with the housing and is capable of drawing a vacuum through the pill aperture in the vacuum disk. A torque source is operatively connected to the vacuum disk in order to rotate the vacuum disk. A pill shelf is positioned adjacent to the front wall of the vacuum disk and a pill separator for removing pills retained on the pill apertures by the vacuum source is connected to the pill shelf. Finally, a pill sensor is positioned to detect pills which will exit the discharge aperture.

A modular pillbox that includes a base unit and a plurality of modules that can be interchangeably coupled to the base unit. The base unit includes a plurality of interior compartments defined by a top, a bottom and at least one side wall, openable doors that close the tops of the plurality of interior compartments, one-way passages in one of the bottoms or the at least one side wall of each interior compartment through which pills can be pushed into the interior compartments, and an opening in a front portion of the base unit. The plurality of modules includes a cover plate that couples to the base unit and covers the opening, and various electronic packages that removable couple to the base unit and cover the opening. An interactive electronic pillbox that includes the platform or base unit and an electronics package includes data entry, data display, data transmitting and data processing functions which allow for interactive healthcare management by individuals and healthcare personnel directly or remotely. Form a remote location a healthcare provider can monitor, manage, evaluate and maintain a periodic record of the healthcare of a user of the electronic interactive pillbox.

A medication organizer system includes an arrangement of day of the week containers with each container divided into separate time of the day compartments. Each time of the day compartment has pictorial indicia which readily signifies a specific respective time of the day. A medication organized worksheet is provided with medication/pill identifying pictorial indicia and an imprinted grid which tracts the container and compartment arrangement; the grid having juxtaposed imprinted pictorial indicia corresponding to the compartment pictorial indicia. A sheet of adhesive backed peel-off numerals is provided, whereby a peeled-off numeral is adhered to the medication organizer worksheet juxtaposed to the grid and another peeled-off same numeral is adhered to the container for the specific medication. A medication organizer instruction sheet containing pictorials is provided to permit a layperson to readily use the medication organizer system.

An intake to exit security system for high-volume pharmacies provides maximum security from tampering and assures accuracy. The system immediately assigns bar codes to shipments upon arrival and then tracks them through warehousing, bulk distribution, prescription dispensing and shipping to patients, hospitals and drugstores. Bar-coded lock neck devices secure bulk drug canisters to bar-coded dispensing machines at specified dispensing stations where the machines dispense drugs into pre-labeled prescription bottles according to prescription indicia on the labels. Bottles then undergo content analysis and certification before packaged and shipped to customers. A Ramon laser spectral analysis contrasts the bottle contents to a library of known spectral signatures of drugs, and the pharmacist is alerted to any detected difference. A simultaneously captured visual image of the pills enables the pharmacist visually to compare the contents to a library of known visual appearances of the drugs. Both analyses are recorded for prescriptions certified and forwarded to customers. Deviations are excised without disrupting flow of other prescriptions, and the system automatically reassigns an incorrectly filled prescription to another bottle which starts anew through the system. Full bottles of commonly used drugs and specialized containers for irregularly shaped objects, creams and ointments may be pre-filled and inventoried for later collation with prescription bottles at the packaging and shipping stage.

The present invention relates to gene therapy systems designed for the delivery of a therapeutic product to a subject using replication-defective virus composition(s) engineered with a built-in safety mechanism for ablating the therapeutic gene product, either permanently or temporarily, in response to a pharmacological agent—preferably an oral formulation, e.g., a pill. The invention is based, in part, on the applicants' development of an integrated approach, referred to herein as “PITA” (Pharmacologically Induced Transgene Ablation), for ablating a transgene or negatively regulating transgene expression. In this approach, replication-deficient viruses are used to deliver a transgene encoding a therapeutic product (an RNA or a protein) so that it is expressed in the subject, but can be reversibly or irreversibly turned off by administering the pharmacological agent; e.g., by administration of a small molecule that induces expression of an ablator specific for the transgene or its RNA transcript.

An atypical pill dispensing apparatus. The atypical pill dispensing apparatus may include a pill depository, a pill transporter, and a controller. The pill depository accommodates atypical pills. The pill transporter includes: a housing including an inlet opening formed on one side to be provided with the atypical pills from the pill depository, and a discharging opening formed on the other side to discharge the atypical pills; a screw with one end disposed corresponding to the inlet opening and the other end disposed corresponding to the discharging opening so as to transport the atypical pills along a spiral when rotating; and a screw driver to rotate the screw. The controller enables the pill transporter to control the transportation of the atypical pills.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine for curing mammary hyperplasia, which comprises oral administration Chinese traditional pills and external application plaster. The oral administration Chinese traditional pills comprise 23 Chinese herb medicines, while the external application plaster comprises 32 Chinese herb medicines. The ingredients of the traditional Chinese medicine formula is mixed compatibly and properly; the plaster and the oral administration pills of the invention can effectively cure the mammary hyperplasia caused by various reasons and has fast efficacy, short course of treatment, high cure rate and low cost. The traditional Chinese medicine of the invention has unique healing efficacy to breast adenofibroma, breast cancer, nipple discharge, mastalgia, mastitis, breast deformity, micromazia, osteomyelitis, femoral head necrosis, various sores, lymphoid tuberculosis and eye-mouth deviation.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine pill production device. The device comprises a sieve plate, a vibration motor, a cylinder, a second motor and a first motor. When pills fall on the top of the sieve plate after being prepared, the qualified pills fall into a discharging chamber through a discharging through hole formed in the sieve plate; the vibration motor vibrates and then drives the sieve plate to vibrate; the cylinder is used for pushing a push plate to move along the top of the sieve plate; a discharging channel is arranged to make unqualified pills which are discharged from a box fall into a receiving tank along the discharging channel; the second motor rotates and then drives spiral blades on a conveying rotary shaft to rotate, so that unqualified pills are conveyed from a feed inlet of a conveying device to a discharging opening of the conveying device, manpower is saved, and the production efficiency of equipment is improved; the first motor rotates and then drives crushing blades on a crushing rotary shaft to rotate so as to crush the unqualified pills.

A technique for assuring patient use of the correct drug pill for a prescribed treatment of a particular body organ or part, involving shaping the pill to have an appearance resembling such body organ—in particular, appropriate prophylactic-dose aspirin pills of heart-shape, as well as other drug pills for treating other body parts the shape of which is imparted to the respective pills.

The invention discloses a multifunctional Chinese medicine honeyed pill, which is prepared with honey by grinding 55 kinds of Chinese medicines such as ginseng, radix asparagi, etc. The honeyed pill can be used for curing various diseases such as cerebrum and central nervous system disease, parkinsonism, apoplexy, rheumatoid arthritis, the viscera disease, and the like, and also can be taken as health medicine.

A medication dispenser comprises slots that may be sized to accommodate medication containers of various sizes. Each slot has an associated barcode reader. A user inserts the pharmacy-provided pill or medication container into one slot. The barcode on the container is read. From the barcode the medication in the container is identified. The device contains a simple user interface that allows the user to enter the dosing frequency prescribed, how many pills or cc's are in the container, how many refills and a starting time. The dispenser alerts users to possible drug interactions with medications in other slots as well as alerts them to dosing times and other pertinent information.

The invention is related to a smart pill dispenser which is used in a household, on a desktop, by keeping the different types of and different dosed medication inside the container, which provides information to the user in order for the user to take his/her medication in time and in correct doses and which can inform the user interactively communicate with smart devices and such as cell phones, and smart watches.

The invention relates to a medicine for treating the calculus of the urinary system, which is prepared from the following Chinese herbal medicines in parts by weight: 3 parts of radix aristolochiae, 3 parts of serissa foetida comm., 4 parts of pyrrosia lingua, 9 parts of herba lysimachiae, 4 parts of japanese fern spore, 5 parts of plantain seed, 3 parts of talcum powder, 3 parts of glauber's salt, 4 parts of otolithum sciaenae, 6 parts of sparrow-tongue, 4 parts of chicken's gizzard-membrane, 2 parts of licorice, 4 parts of succinum, 4 parts of trogopterus dung, 5 parts of lilac pink, 2 parts of ground beetle, 4 parts of vaxxaria seed, 3 parts of rhizoma zedoariae, 4 parts of twotooth achyranthes root, 4 parts of great burdock fruit, 3 parts of earthworm, 2 parts of scaly anteater, 3 parts of rhizoma alismatis, 3 parts of astragalus root, 3 parts of radix codonopsis pilosulae, 3 parts of turmeric, 2 parts of blister beetle and 4 parts of rhizoma sparganii; the medicine is prepared by pulverizing the Chinese herbal medicines according to the mixture ratio, adding 1-2% of pure gooey, stirring, braising for 100-120 minutes to prepare a pill after cooling. The medicine has the effects of reducing fever, removing dampness by diuresis, strengthening the spleen, supplementing qi, promoting blood circulation, dissolving stasis and the like, is used for treating renal calculus, ureteral calculus, vesical calculus and urethral calculus and can be used for treating oledocholithiasis, hepatolithiasis and cholecystolithiasis.