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Compliance And Viral Suppression Improved In HIV Patients Using Pill Box Organizers

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Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection by authors from the Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of ...

read more Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection by authors from the Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Report Estimates True Tachyphylaxis Rates During Continuation Treatment With Newer Antidepressants

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The majority of relapses during continuation treatment with new-generation antidepressants may occur in patients who did not actually respond to the medication, according to a meta-analysis published on Wednesday in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. [click link for full ...

read more The majority of relapses during continuation treatment with new-generation antidepressants may occur in patients who did not actually respond to the medication, according to a meta-analysis published on Wednesday in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. [click link for full read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Should Patients Be Rewarded For Complying With Treatment Programs?

Categorie : Compliance
After the English health service announced it is going to reward drug addicts who comply with treatment programs by giving them shopping vouchers, an article in this week's British Medical Journal wonders whether it is acceptable to do this. According to Tom Burns, a senior psychiatrist at Warneford ...

read more After the English health service announced it is going to reward drug addicts who comply with treatment programs by giving them shopping vouchers, an article in this week's British Medical Journal wonders whether it is acceptable to do this. According to Tom Burns, a senior psychiatrist at Warneford read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Millions Of Patients Not Taking Prescription Drugs Properly, Report Says

Categorie : Compliance
Millions of U.S. residents with chronic conditions either do not take medications correctly or stop taking them altogether, according to a report to be released this week by the National Council on Patient Information and Education, the AP/Peoria Journal Star reports. [click link for full article] ...

read more Millions of U.S. residents with chronic conditions either do not take medications correctly or stop taking them altogether, according to a report to be released this week by the National Council on Patient Information and Education, the AP/Peoria Journal Star reports. [click link for full article] read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Ensuring Anti-HIV Drugs Are Taken In Africa

Categorie : Compliance
HIV-infected patients in the African country of Tanzania were more likely to stop taking their medications and to fail treatment if they had to pay for the drugs themselves.According the results of a new study conducted by Tanzanian physicians and Duke University Medical Center researchers, HIV& ...

read more HIV-infected patients in the African country of Tanzania were more likely to stop taking their medications and to fail treatment if they had to pay for the drugs themselves.According the results of a new study conducted by Tanzanian physicians and Duke University Medical Center researchers, HIV& read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

HIV Treatment Discontinued By Many In Africa

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More than one-third of patients receiving HIV medication in Africa die or discontinue their treatment within two years, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine.Boston University researcher Sydney Rosen and colleagues identified and analyzed scientific reports over the past 7 years that g ...

read more More than one-third of patients receiving HIV medication in Africa die or discontinue their treatment within two years, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine.Boston University researcher Sydney Rosen and colleagues identified and analyzed scientific reports over the past 7 years that g read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Burden Of Care Rivals Complications Of Disease For Some Diabetics

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Many patients with diabetes say that the inconvenience and discomfort of constant therapeutic vigilance, particularly multiple daily insulin injections, has as much impact on their quality of life as the burden of intermediate complications, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the O ...

read more Many patients with diabetes say that the inconvenience and discomfort of constant therapeutic vigilance, particularly multiple daily insulin injections, has as much impact on their quality of life as the burden of intermediate complications, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the O read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Pillbox Organizers Can Help Maintain Antiretroviral Regimen Adherence, Slow Progression Of HIV To AIDS, Study Says

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HIV-positive people who use pillbox organizers to help adhere to their antiretroviral drug regimens could reduce the risk of progressing to AIDS, according to a study published in the October issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Reuters Health reports. For the study, David Bangsber ...

read more HIV-positive people who use pillbox organizers to help adhere to their antiretroviral drug regimens could reduce the risk of progressing to AIDS, according to a study published in the October issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Reuters Health reports. For the study, David Bangsber read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

VISTAKON(R) Launches Electronic Contact Lens Reminder Service To Help Improve Contact Lens Compliance

Categorie : Compliance
Contact lens wearers no longer have to worry about forgetting to replace their lenses as recommended by their eye care doctor. Today, VISTAKON(R), Division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. and maker of ACUVUE(R) Brand Contact Lenses, announced the national launch of ACUMINDER(TM), a complimen ...

read more Contact lens wearers no longer have to worry about forgetting to replace their lenses as recommended by their eye care doctor. Today, VISTAKON(R), Division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. and maker of ACUVUE(R) Brand Contact Lenses, announced the national launch of ACUMINDER(TM), a complimen read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

New Study Suggests Number Of Pills Not A Factor When It Comes To Daily Adherence To Medication

Categorie : Compliance
There is no correlation between the daily number of pills a patient is prescribed to take and how well a patient will adhere to a dosing regimen, suggests a new study presented recently at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) held in San Diego (April 11-14). [click ...

read more There is no correlation between the daily number of pills a patient is prescribed to take and how well a patient will adhere to a dosing regimen, suggests a new study presented recently at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) held in San Diego (April 11-14). [click read more Wed Jun 2007 Wed Jun 2007

Deficient Understanding Of Infection And Treatment In Hepatitis B Patients'

Categorie : Compliance
Many patients with chronic hepatitis B are deficient in their understanding of the lifelong disease and often do not comply with the drug regimens necessary to control it, according to a new UCLA survey that suggests improved patient involvement in disease management decisions could be the key to fi ...

read more Many patients with chronic hepatitis B are deficient in their understanding of the lifelong disease and often do not comply with the drug regimens necessary to control it, according to a new UCLA survey that suggests improved patient involvement in disease management decisions could be the key to fi read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

Complications Of Type 2 Diabetes In Young People -- A Ticking Bomb

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The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its associated complications in young people mean better approaches and management of both are urgently needed, conclude authors of a Review published in The Lancet.The Review adds that the poor adherence of adolescents with type 2 diabetes t ...

read more The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its associated complications in young people mean better approaches and management of both are urgently needed, conclude authors of a Review published in The Lancet.The Review adds that the poor adherence of adolescents with type 2 diabetes t read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

A Simple Tool Can Enhance How Patients With Diabetes Take Their Medications

Categorie : Compliance
Though diabetes contributes to nearly a quarter million deaths in the United States annually, patients with chronic ailments don't always take their medication as prescribed. A Mayo Clinic research team has designed a simple tool to improve compliance with life-saving medications. The tool is clearl ...

read more Though diabetes contributes to nearly a quarter million deaths in the United States annually, patients with chronic ailments don't always take their medication as prescribed. A Mayo Clinic research team has designed a simple tool to improve compliance with life-saving medications. The tool is clearl read more Wed May 2007 Wed May 2007

WSJ Examines Strategies For Helping Patients Adhere To Prescription Drug Regimens

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"One of the most vexing problems in health care today is the fact that as many as 50% of patients don't take their medicine on a regular basis or at all," the Wall Street Journal reports. [click link for full article] ...

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Prescription Drug Makers Increasingly Develop Combination Pills

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Prescription drugs increasingly are being offered as combination therapies, in which two or more medications are combined in a single dose, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the Times, the trend in part is being driven by drug manufacturers facing patent expirations and competition from ge ...

read more Prescription drugs increasingly are being offered as combination therapies, in which two or more medications are combined in a single dose, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the Times, the trend in part is being driven by drug manufacturers facing patent expirations and competition from ge read more Thu May 2007 Thu May 2007

UGA Pharmacist Offers Strategies To Improve Medication Compliance

Categorie : Compliance
Half of all patients don't take their medications as directed, putting their health at risk and potentially driving up the cost of their health care.In "Patient Compliance with Medications: Issues and Opportunities" (Pharmaceutical Products Press, $32.95), Jack Fincham, A.W. [click link for full art ...

read more Half of all patients don't take their medications as directed, putting their health at risk and potentially driving up the cost of their health care.In read more Sun Apr 2007 Sun Apr 2007

Online 'Pillbox' To Remind People To Take Medications

Categorie : Compliance
A soon-to-be released online device, called Med-eMonitor, will be used as part of a Medicare program in Tennessee to alert patients when to take their medications, the Tennessean reports. The device sends elderly people reminders, usually with a song-like tone, to take their medication. [click link ...

read more A soon-to-be released online device, called Med-eMonitor, will be used as part of a Medicare program in Tennessee to alert patients when to take their medications, the Tennessean reports. The device sends elderly people reminders, usually with a song-like tone, to take their medication. [click link read more Wed Apr 2007 Wed Apr 2007

Did Pack-size Laws Reduce Paracetamol Suicides Or Was Fall Just A Coincidence?

Categorie : Compliance
Fatal poisonings involving paracetamol (acetaminophen) fell after a law introduced in the UK restricted the number of tablets that could be sold across the counter. But new research has concluded that this reduction may not have been a result of the change in the law. [click link for full article] ...

read more Fatal poisonings involving paracetamol (acetaminophen) fell after a law introduced in the UK restricted the number of tablets that could be sold across the counter. But new research has concluded that this reduction may not have been a result of the change in the law. [click link for full article] read more Thu Apr 2007 Thu Apr 2007

Studies Show About 50% Of People Fail To Take Medication As Directed

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USA Today on Thursday examined how multiple studies have shown that only about half of people with chronic conditions in the U.S. and other developed countries continue to take medication as directed. [click link for full article] ...

read more USA Today on Thursday examined how multiple studies have shown that only about half of people with chronic conditions in the U.S. and other developed countries continue to take medication as directed. [click link for full article] read more Tue Apr 2007 Tue Apr 2007

Patients Say Drug Leaflets Are Hard To Read, Understand

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Patients report that leaflets provided with prescription drugs do not meet their needs, according to a new systematic review. Instead, poor layout and complex language often hinder communication. Review studies confirm that written drug information does not improve patient understanding of their med ...

read more Patients report that leaflets provided with prescription drugs do not meet their needs, according to a new systematic review. Instead, poor layout and complex language often hinder communication. Review studies confirm that written drug information does not improve patient understanding of their med read more Mon Apr 2007 Mon Apr 2007

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