The importance of improving medication adherence came into sharp relief last week as IMS and Medicare released new U.S. prescription spending data. In the midst of the seismic shift in how Medicare ...

Among food-insecure patients on antihypertensive medication, receiving assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was associated with improvements in medication adherence.

Conversations between the patient and provider should focus on the stakes of antiobesity treatment and continuation, says Hamlet Gasoyan, PhD, Cleveland Clinic. Hamlet Gasoyan, PhD, researcher at the ...

Both consumers and providers have many frustrations with the prescription medication process—the most common are price confusion and potential sticker shock at the pharmacy counter, drug shortages and ...

Approximately half of the adults in the United States (116 million) have high blood pressure, or hypertension, with 91.7 million needing prescription medication in addition to lifestyle changes. As of ...

Medication non-adherence is a major societal problem with serious clinical and economic consequences, associated with 200,000 deaths and 125 billion euros of costs annually in Europe. Studies show ...

A new study examining hypertension medication adherence found that high-tech interventions failed to improve how consistently patients take their blood pressure medications, despite successfully ...

Text message reminders to patients can improve medication adherence by 15.3 to 17.8 percent, according to a meta-analysis of 13 individual studies, published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A recent clinical trial led by the University of Cincinnati looked at whether people living with HIV were more likely to take a monthly injection or a daily pill as treatment. The ...

“Compared to non-CMR recipients, CMR recipients experienced a considerably higher increase in adherence to COPD medications from 2016 to 2017, and findings with data from more recent years are ...