A vaporizing assembly for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a delivery device and a heater assembly. The heater assembly may comprise a heat resistive substrate and a heating element. The delivery device is configured to deliver an aerosol-forming substrate to at least a surface of the heat resistive substrate, wherein the heating element is isolated or separated from the aerosol-forming substrate by the heat resistive substrate. The present disclosure is also directed to a method for generating an aerosol.

The present invention discloses a method of determining the delivery of a dosage from an inhaler able to deliver an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) as an inhalable aerosol to a user comprising at least the steps of (i) measuring user inhalation airflow during a use occasion of the inhaler to determine the portion of the inhalation above an airspeed threshold F1; (ii) measuring the volume of air inhaled by the user during the use occasion of the inhaler to determine the portion of inhalation occurring prior to a swept volume threshold V1; (iii) determining a first portion P1 of the dosage provided by the inhaler during the use occasion above the threshold F1 and provided prior to threshold V1.

An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising: a housing for receiving a reservoir, and a cap releasable with respect to the housing, wherein the assembly has a capped state and an uncapped state, wherein the cap comprises a member to be gripped by a user for releasing the cap from the housing, wherein the member is rotatable to release the cap from the housing, wherein the assembly comprises an interface to convert rotational movement of the member into axial movement of the member, the interface comprising a track configured to guide movement of the member, wherein the track has a first region and a second region, wherein, when the first region guides the movement, the member is displaced from the housing by a first distance, and when the second region guides the movement, the member is displaced from the housing by a second distance.

An insulin storage and dispensing system for housing a standard insulin bottle and securely keeping the bottle in place when using a syringe to access the port on the top of the bottle to fill the syringe while providing accessibility in the form of a convenient mounting assembly for mounting on a refrigerator, an interior cabinet door or wall.

A bypass adaptor for a respiratory assistance system including an inlet connector configured to connect to a gases source outlet and defining a first gases passageway with a first axis and an outlet connector configured to connect to an inspiratory conduit connector and defining a second gases passageway with a second axis, the second gases passageway being fluidly connected to the first gases passageway, the inspiratory conduit connector being incompatible with direct connection to the gases source outlet, wherein the first axis is separated from the second axis by an angle that allows the inspiratory conduit connector to be connected via the bypass adaptor to the gases source outlet in a space smaller than the length of the inspiratory conduit connector. Also provided are a port cap assembly and a humidifying apparatus including the port cap assembly, wherein the port cap assembly provides for improved assembly and/or usability.

A blood circuit assembly for a dialysis unit may include an organizing tray, a pair of pneumatic pumps mounted to the organizing tray for circulating blood received from a patient through a circuit including a dialyzer unit and returned to the patient, an air trap mounted to the organizing tray arranged to remove air from blood circulating in the circuit, a pair of dialyzer connections arranged to connect to the inlet and outlet of a dialyzer unit, and a pair of blood line connectors, one inlet blood line connector for receiving blood from the patient and providing blood to the pneumatic pumps and the other outlet blood line connector for returning blood to the patient.

A sheet-type aerosol generating article includes at least two aerosol generating sheets each having aerosol generating material and an inductively heatable susceptor The inductively heatable susceptor is positioned between the aerosol generating sheets and each of the aerosol generating sheets has an exposed surface. Methods for manufacturing sheet-type aerosol generating articles are also disclosed.

A portable medical device for injecting a medicament into a patient. The device includes a control circuit with a memory, the control circuit automatically storing in the memory an ejection event including an amount of the medicament that is ejected from the portable medical device during the ejection event; and a proximity sensor configured to sense proximity of a solid object located in an ejection direction of the portable medical device without making contact with the solid object. The control circuit is configured to tag the ejection event as an injection event if the ejection takes place in proximity of the solid object and to tag the ejection event as a priming ejection if the ejection does not take place in proximity of the solid object.

Embodiments of the invention include a medicament device configured to provide stepwise instructions for using the device to a user in a particular sequence is provided. The device includes a device housing configured to receive a container, the housing including a control interface, the control interface including at least one responsive member reactive to a user input, an actuation mechanism configured to interact with the container, a signal output component associated with the device housing, and circuitry associated with the device housing configured to control a provision of the stepwise instructions to the user in the particular sequence. The container includes a first housing for containing a medicament, a second housing, and an injection member, wherein the first and second housings are movable relative to one another. The container further includes an injection member which is retractable within the second housing to prevent an unintentional contact with the injection member.

A system and method for interactive healing of a patient. A method of configuring a room of a long-term patient to promote patient comprises providing a remote display. The remote display is portable and is removably coupled to a swing arm accessible by the patient on a patient bed. The remote display is configured to control each of a wall display, a lighting system, an audio system, a room shading system, an environmental control system, a microphone, and a camera. Each of the microphone and camera are separate from the remote display and are accessible by the patient on the patient bed. The method includes configuring the wall display on a wall of the room. The wall display has a navigation display and a plurality of content displays. The remote display is usable to select content for display on at least one of the plurality of content displays.