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by Bruce Brown | May 21, 2019 | Medical
Smart pill bottles may not be the best and only answer to patient compliance with prescription medications, but if they’re not it won’t be for a lack of trying by developers worldwide. We’ve written before about smart pill bottles and boxes from...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
by Alfred Poor | August 15, 2018 | General News, Medical
For many reasons, people fail to take their prescription drugs as instructed. Sometimes they forget. Sometimes they don’t want to (or can’t) spend the money to buy the medications. For whatever the reason, however, the estimates for the increased...
by Bruce Brown | March 13, 2018 | General News, Medical
The opioid epidemic currently causes more than 40,000 deaths annually in the U.S. While the majority of abusers were not treated for chronic pain, according to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than a third of the abusers received the drugs...
by Kimberly Houston | February 7, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 100 million adults in the U.S. are now living with diabetes or prediabetes. With a health problem this enormous, improvements in treatment are of critical importance. Insulin therapy is one...
