Contact: Sarah Avery sarah.avery@duke.edu 919-660-1306 Duke University Medical Center Staying on medication may not translate to avoiding readmission DURHAM, N.C. – A targeted effort to help high-risk heart failure patients stay on their medications did improve adherence to drug regimens,… Read More ›
Compliance (medicine)
Half of Tamiflu prescriptions went unused during 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, sewage study concludes
Press release 2013/03 – Issued by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK A new study concludes that approximately half of the prescriptions of Tamiflu during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic went unused in England. The unused medication represents approximately … Read More ›
Monitoring Your Drug Use and Compliance through the Internet, with Electronic Smart Pills
The technology behind the so-called smart pill is slick — a sensor the size of a grain of sand is added to a medication. When ingested, it sends a signal through the patient’s body to a patch worn on the… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 