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Even The Boss Doesn't Follow The Doctor's Orders
Only 68 percent of corporate executives took their cholesterol lowering medication as prescribed by a doctor, a new study shows. Overall, the executives who took their medication even sporadically were twice as likely to meet their cholesterol goals. The study finding also questions the prevailing wisdom that income is a primary factor in medication adherence...
NCPA Partners With Sharps Compliance To Help Community Pharmacies Promote Rx Disposal Programs During Earth Week
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) and Sharps Compliance Inc. officially announced their partnership agreement to offer the association's member pharmacies discounted services for the Sharps TAKEAWAY Environmental Return SystemTM...
UAB Hospital To Integrate Advanced Symbiq(TM) Infusion Device With EHR To Enhance Safety And Clinician Workflow
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UNC Physicians Leaders In New Radiation Treatment Guidelines
The culmination of a two-year effort to review available studies and establish new guidelines for the safe treatment of cancer with radiation therapy was published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics...
Leading Patient Education Organization To Asthma Patients: Talk To Your Healthcare Provider About FDA 12-Hour Bronchodilator Warnings
Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) encourages patients to make informed decisions about recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations affecting patients using asthma medications known as long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) or 12-hour bronchodilators: Advair, Foradil, Serevent and Symbicort...
CBI Announces Agenda For 9th Annual Forum On Patient Adherence, Compliance And Persistency
The Center for Business Intelligence (CBI), a division of Advanstar Communications, is pleased to announce the full program agenda for the 9th Annual Forum on Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistency, which includes The 5th Annual Strategic Patient Adherence (SPA) Awards, co-sponsored by Pharmaceutical Executive magazine. The conference will take place April 26 - 27, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA...
PharMEDium Participates In Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Summit: Medication Safety In The Operating Room; Time For A New Paradigm
PharMEDium Services, LLC, announced their participation in the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Summit held January 26th in Phoenix, AZ. PharMEDium's commitment to patient safety aligned with the APSF goals of improving medication safety by offering a complete line of pre-filled, pre-labeled Anesthesia syringe medications intended for use in the Operating Room...
Study Finds Nearly A Quarter Of Prescriptions Go Unfilled
Reuters: "Many people whose doctors start them on medications for conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure may never fill those prescriptions, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 75,000 Massachusetts patients given drug prescriptions over one year, 22 percent of the prescriptions were never filled. ...
FDA Announces New Safety Plan For Agents Used To Treat Chemotherapy-Related Anemia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a risk management program to inform healthcare providers and their patients about the risks of a class of drugs called Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs)...
CVS Caremark Study Finds Value Based Insurance Designs Can Increase Adherence In Diabetes Patients
A study by CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), published this week in the American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits, finds that insurance benefit designs that reduce the cost of medications for plan participants result in patients being more likely to start and stay on their medication therapy...
Centocor Ortho Biotech Products And Amgen Finalize ESA Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy (REMS) With FDA
Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P. and Amgen Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), which include PROCRIT® (Epoetin alfa), Aranesp® (darbepoetin alfa) and EPOGEN® (Epoetin alfa)...
Safe Practice And Nursing Care Of Patients Receiving Oral Anticancer Medicines
Safe practice and nursing care of patients receiving oral anticancer medicines: a position statement from UKONS. A position statement from the UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) on the safe, effective use of oral anticancer medicines was published online on 5 February 2010 by ecancermedicalscience...
Good Guidance Impacts Effectiveness Of Treatment Of Patients With Chronic Diseases
Many patients with chronic conditions do not take as much of their medication as they should. As a result, the effectiveness of the treatment is often suboptimal, and it also becomes more expensive. Until now, the extent to which the guidance of patients could be improved to promote the correct use of medication had been unclear...
News From The February Issue Of Chest
BENEFITS OF ICS FOR COPD MAY BE OVERSTATED Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are widely used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, new research suggests that ICS may only provide a modest benefit in reducing exacerbations in patients with COPD...
The Prevention Of Psychiatric Patient Suicides
Between 1997 and 2006, 38% of out-of-clinic suicides by mental health patients were carried out by people absent without leave from the hospital. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry suggest that measures to improve the ward environment or prevent patients from leaving psychiatric wards without staff agreement could avoid up to 50 suicide deaths every year...
Mail Order Pharmacies Use Improves Patients' Medication Adherence
Buying medicine by mail may encourage patients to stick to their doctor-prescribed medication regimen, new research suggests. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from UCLA and Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, Calif...
Better Control Of Drug Use Can Save 400 Swedish Lives Per Year
A scientific study indicates that the lives of 400 Swedes could be saved annually if measures were taken to prevent side effects of pharmaceuticals...
High Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Associated With Lower Health Care Costs
High antiretroviral therapy adherence, which has been shown to be a major predictor of HIV disease progression and survival, is now associated with lower health care costs, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...
DID U TK UR MEDS? - - Texting Can Improve Meds Use, Chronic Disease Treatment
From a lethal distraction for drivers to dehumanizing personal interactions, text messaging has gotten a bum rap lately. But for doctors treating patients with chronic diseases, text messaging can be an invaluable tool, according to Johns Hopkins Children's Center pediatrician Delphine Robotham...
Study Shows Elderly Blacks Are More Likely To Skip Their Medication Than Whites And May Be At Greater Risk For Other Medication-Related Problems
Older adults experience a number of medication-related problems, including under treatment, suboptimal drugs, suboptimal dosing, and non-adherence, which can have negative effects on their quality of life...
Coverage Of Inexpensive Drugs May Increase Length And Quality Of Life After Heart Attack
Providing free medications to people after heart attack could add years to patients' lives at a relatively low cost for provincial governments, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. "Many patients are not benefiting from effective prescribed medications because they simply don't fill their prescriptions," says Dr...
Medication Compliance Is A Key Concern For Employers, According To New Survey
More employers are taking steps to improve their employees' health by making sure they take their medicines as prescribed, a move that could stave off more serious and costly health consequences, according to a new report sponsored by the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC)...
Innovative Strategy Could Help People Follow Doctors' Orders, Take Medications
People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found...
Suggestions Abound For Cutting National Health Care Costs
Two publications looked at the problem of rising health costs and ways to try to "bend the curve." In a cover story, BusinessWeek reports: "None of the health-care reform bills on the table in Washington do anything meaningful to address that wasted $700 billion...
Studies Geared To Improving HIV Care And Prevention Supported By Federal Stimulus Funds
UCSF HIV researchers have received two NIH grants of $1 million each to study the use of web-based, patient controlled personal health records to improve health and HIV prevention outcomes for HIV positive patients. Both studies are funded through the federal stimulus bill, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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