Abstract: A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising at least one active ingredient and destined for administration to pregnant women. The pharmaceutical dosage form bears pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to improve patient compliance with medically recommended dosage regimen resulting in improved product effectiveness. The pregnancy-friendly indicia is also apt to diminish the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of pharmaceutical dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Also disclosed is a method for achieving improved patient compliance resulting in improved product effectiveness. Also disclosed is a method for diminishing the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Said methods comprising providing a pharmaceutical dosage form, intended for use by pregnant women, bearing pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to graphically distinguish dosage forms intended to be used during pregnancy from others.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising at least one active ingredient and destined for administration to pregnant women. The pharmaceutical dosage form bears pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to improve patient compliance with medically recommended dosage regimen resulting in improved product effectiveness. The pregnancy-friendly indicia is also apt to diminish the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of pharmaceutical dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Also disclosed is a method for achieving improved patient compliance resulting in improved product effectiveness. Also disclosed is a method for diminishing the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Said methods comprising providing a pharmaceutical dosage form, intended for use by pregnant women, bearing pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to graphically distinguish dosage forms intended to be used during pregnancy from others.

Abstract: Blood glucose levels in an individual are determined by aligning a region of the retina of the eye of an individual with an instrument, measuring a regeneration rate of the retinal visual pigment of the individual, and using the measured regeneration rate to calculate the blood glucose level. The apparatus for measuring the blood glucose comprises a blood glucose analysis instrument adapted to determine blood glucose concentration from information regarding regeneration rate of the visual pigment in the retina region of an eye, and an alignment mechanism adapted to align the retina region with at least a portion of the device.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising at least one active ingredient and destined for administration to pregnant women. The pharmaceutical dosage form bears pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to improve patient compliance with medically recommended dosage regimen resulting in improved product effectiveness. The pregnancy-friendly indicia is also apt to diminish the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of pharmaceutical dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Also disclosed is a method for achieving improved patient compliance resulting in improved product effectiveness. Also disclosed is a method for diminishing the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Said methods comprising providing a pharmaceutical dosage form, intended for use by pregnant women, bearing pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to graphically distinguish dosage forms intended to be used during pregnancy from others.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optics assembly, a reflectometer, and a diagnostic device for providing quantitative measurement of optical radiation reflected from a sampling area on an assay matrix. The reflectometer includes an optical radiation source and a detector. The optical radiation source and the detector are mounted in a single plane. An optics assembly is configured to direct the illumination from the optical radiation source to the sampling area on the assay matrix and to direct the radiation diffusely reflected from the sampling area to the detector. The optics assembly is positioned over the face of the circuit board having the optical radiation source and detector mounted directly thereto. The present invention also provides a method for determining the presence of one or more selected analytes in a sample employing a plurality of sampling areas on one or more assay matrixes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a head-mounted display system that is compact and provides a wide field of view yet reduces or eliminates eyestrain. The system includes a binocular on-axis objective lens assembly that relays an image from a display device through a split-field exit aperture onto binocular optical paths. Intermediate image planes are formed within each optical path with each intermediate image plane having an associated microstructure that enhances the exit pupil of each left and right optical path.

Abstract: A video interface linking a base station with a remote display, e.g., a head-mounted display, converts input video signals from NTSC or PAL formats into modulated video signals containing repetitive sequences of frame times with embedded audio and control signals. Each frame time includes equal consecutive color field times. Frame rates are converted by inserting selected repeating color frames into the datastream. Bursts of image information occupy a portion of each field time. During each data burst, the display is loaded with pixel luminance data. Between bursts, the display is illuminated by a color LED. Two video displays can be driven alternately, i.e., the first display loads while the second is illuminated. The modulated video signal can travel through the atmosphere on an infrared (IR) beam with a wavelength between 700 nm and 1100 nm. In one embodiment, the beam is scattered from a diffuse reflecting surface. Alternatively, the beam is emitted from an array of infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Abstract: A diagnostics apparatus for detecting fluorescence events related to the presence of an analyte in a sample is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a source of excitation light and a photodetector, and a unitary multi-surface optical module. The optical module is integrally formed and composed of an upstream portion having a focusing optical surface for directing excitation light from the light source to a focal region within an analyte-detection zone in the apparatus, and a downstream portion having a second focusing powered optical surface and at least one reflecting surface for directing fluorescence-emission light produced by fluorescence events within the detection zone, in a direction substantially normal to the path of the excitation light onto the photodetector. The optical module is adaptable to a variety of assay formats, including multiple-sample, sample-array, and disposable-cartridge formats.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical dosage form comprising at least one active ingredient and destined for administration to pregnant women. The pharmaceutical dosage form bears pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to improve patient compliance with medically recommended dosage regimen resulting in improved product effectiveness. The pregnancy-friendly indicia is also apt to diminish the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of pharmaceutical dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Also disclosed is a method for achieving improved patient compliance resulting in improved product effectiveness. Also disclosed is a method for diminishing the incidence of erroneous dispensing of or erroneous ingestion of dosage forms not intended for pregnant women. Said methods comprising providing a pharmaceutical dosage form, intended for use by pregnant women, bearing pregnancy-friendly indicia apt to graphically distinguish dosage forms intended to be used during pregnancy from others.

Abstract: The present invention provides a head-mounted display system that is compact and provides a wide field of view yet reduces or eliminates eyestrain. The system includes a biocular on-axis objective lens assembly that relays an image from a display device through a split-field exit aperture onto binocular optical paths. Intermediate image planes are formed within each optical path with each intermediate image plane having an associated microstructure that enhances the exit pupil of each left and right optical path.

Abstract: An improved method in an interactive text processing system for creating/revising documents by adding a multi-page insert of text data at a specified location in the document comprising displaying the document, signalling to the system the location within the document into which the text data is to be copied, specifying to the system the identification and location within the document into which the text data is to be copied, specifying to the system the identification and location of the insert text data, scanning the insert text data for INCLUDE instructions, resolving the INCLUDE instructions prior to adding the text data into the document, and copying the specified text data into the document at the signalled location. In a specific embodiment, text data up to ten pages can be copied and up to five levels of nested INCLUDE instructions can be resolved.