1.   And experts and patients say that those who refuse to allow the re-use of disposable equipment are told to take their business elsewhere.

2.   Blister packs containing disposable medical equipment start flying around the table as the vets and technicians reach for tubes, syringes, needles, medication bottles and bandages.

3.   But critics contend that first-use syndrome is little more than an excuse by National Medical and others to justify the expense-saving re-use of disposable equipment.

4.   Computer monitors and PC computers, considered disposable equipment available at a local computer store, are exempt.

5.   Haemonetics said it started selling machines and disposable equipment to distributors in China earlier this year.

6.   Sales of disposable equipment used in the machines continued in China in the second quarter, McHugh said.

7.   Some experts noted that the re-use of other disposable equipment, like blood lines, had not been studied sufficiently.

8.   Today flexible circuits are also commonly found in disk drives, keyboards and disposable medical equipment as well as in durable wireless phones.