Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating various skin diseases by topically administering to a subject a composition formulated as a foamable composition which includes a corticosteroid, such as halobetasol. The composition may include a corticosteroid, ethyl alcohol, emulsifying wax, cetostearyl alcohol, polyoxyl 20 cetostearyl ether, water, benzoic acid and propellant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for treating various skin diseases. The composition is formulated as a foamable composition and includes the corticosteroid halobetasol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for treating various skin diseases. The composition is formulated as a foamable composition and includes the corticosteroid halobetasol.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing foamable, corticosteroid containing compositions as well as methods for treating various skin diseases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing foamable, corticosteroid containing compositions as well as methods for treating various skin diseases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing foamable, corticosteroid containing compositions as well as methods for treating various skin diseases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing foamable, corticosteroid containing compositions as well as methods for treating various skin diseases.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition and method for treating various skin diseases. The composition is formulated as a foamable composition and includes the corticosteroid halobetasol.

Abstract: An integrated patient monitoring and control system is provided which includes a SITS, the SITS being adapted for coupling to the patient to obtain a specimen from the patient, a sensor, the sensor being adapted to receive the specimen from the SITS and to analyze the sample, a medication control unit, the medication control unit receiving information from the sensor, and utilizing that information to determine medication dosing information for the patient, and a medication administration system, the medication administration system receiving the dosing information from the medication control unit, and adapted to cause administration of the medication to the patient. If the SITS is adapted for blood draw, the system advantageously is performed in conjunction with a pneumatic pressure cuff, inflated so as to aid in blood draw.

Abstract: A feedback controlled drug delivery system includes the automated sampling and analysis of a patient sample and dosing the patient based on the analysis. Automated sampling may be performed by direct analysis of the patient sample, such as for the measurement of a blood sample coagulation state or a glucose level. The drug delivery system includes a sample set that has a bidirectional patient tube that allows for delivery of the patient sample to an analyzer, and at another time, the infusion of a therapeutic drug. A controller receives a measurement from the analyzer, and based on that measurement, adjusts the delivery of the therapeutic fluid. The sample set has a quick--clear Leur fitting that allows for more effectively clearing a first fluid from a Leur fitting when starting a second fluid. The system also has a reagent cassette holder that protects, using a foam gasket, a reagent on a sample slide.

Abstract: A feedback controlled drug delivery system includes automated blood sampling and analysis and dosing of the patient. Automated sampling is performed by direct analysis of patient blood, such as for measurement of its coagulation state. A novel manifold includes a fluid input port, a patient port adapted to output fluid and to receive a blood sample from the patient, and a fluid pathway connecting the fluid port and the patient port. A sample line is connected to the fluid pathway to provide the sample to an analyzer. In one aspect of this invention, the sample is forced through the sample line by isolating the patient port, such as by a valve, and non-drug fluid is forced into the manifold causing the blood to cross through the sample line. Alternately, a pump force may be utilized on the sample line. In another aspect of this invention, a positive interlock system is utilized between a drug source and the system.

Abstract: An insulative cover is wrapped around a container of intravenous (IV) solution to assist in maintaining the solution at a desired temperature. The cover has an inside pocket for a heat pack that can be activated to warm the IV solution. A loop of hanging cord carried by the cover is insertable through a hole of the container for supporting the container from the cover.