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Taking Medicine For HIV Proves Hard To Swallow For Many People

Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus. But it requires strict adherence in taking the medicine, something that is extremely difficult for many individuals to do.

Why illness perceptions matter in patient support

Once a patient is diagnosed with an illness or injury, he or she generally develops an organised pattern of beliefs about his or her condition. These views are key determinants of the patient’s emotional reactions and behaviour directed at managing the illness, including their adherence to treatment. Despite their importance, the illness or symptom perceptions of patients are rarely sought during medical consultations or in disease management/patient support programmes.

Strategies For Reducing Painful Breast Cancer Drug Side Effects

Aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs that have buoyed long-term survival rates among breast cancer patients, also carry side effects including joint pain so severe that many patients discontinue these lifesaving medicines. New University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research, however, has uncovered patterns that may help clinicians identify and help women at risk of these symptoms sooner in order to increase their chances of sticking with their treatment regimen.

Cost Of Noncompliance Revealed By Study Of Adjuvant Endocrine Treatment For Breast Cancer

The largest study in the world of treatments for post menopausal, hormone positive breast cancer has shown that patients who continue to take exemestane or tamoxifen do significantly better than patients who start to take one or other drug (or tamoxifen followed exemestane) but then stop.

Heart Disease Patients Don't Take Their Medicines

At least a quarter of people with heart disease don't take vital medicines they have been prescribed to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Surviving Sepsis Program -- Increased Compliance Gets Results

A 'surviving sepsis' in-hospital project has been shown to improve the care of patients with sepsis.

CVS Caremark Data Finds More Than 50 Percent Of Adults 45 Years And Younger Are Not Adherent To Cholesterol Lowering Medications

A study released today by CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) found that more than 50 percent of patients under the age of 45 who are prescribed a medication to treat high cholesterol are not optimally adherent to their therapy

Reminders From Intelligent System Increase The Independence Of Those With Special Needs

A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which reminds elderly people or people with special needs of certain everyday tasks.

ADPH Asks Public To Be Aware Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Individuals of any age should make sure they are not at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency

In Australia Doctor-Pharmacist Partnership Reduces Hospitalization For Heart Failure

Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure - one of the most expensive conditions to treat - researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure

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