One study found that 46% of recently diagnosed adult diabetics (type 2) don't take their medicine correctly.
Americans like people who come clean, who step up and admit their mistakes, take their medicine, and move on.
Investors who have owned MLPs for years and who had large unrealized capital gains have decided to take their medicine today rather than wait for the inevitable.
With luck, they will resist the temptation and take their medicine.
Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.
And features that encourage patients to take their medicine and ensure it is working well should make a pill more valuable to insurers and national health systems, and thus justify higher prices.
In clinical trials, at least 80% of patients take their medicine. (If they don't, they wind up being nagged by counselors.) "Try getting that kind of compliance for a diet or exercise program, " he says.
In hopes of slowing the epidemic, Dr. Arata Kochi, director of WHO's global TB program, has been promoting DOTS therapy (directly observed treatment, short-course), whereby health-care workers watch patients take their medicine completely and correctly.
Indeed, there is evidence that not telling people the whole truth gives better results than levelling with them perhaps because they can take their medicine openly, without having to lie to their family and friends to avoid the stigma of being branded a leper.
Dr Draghi appears to have recognised that moral hazard works both ways: there ought to be some reward for governments like Italy who agree to take their fiscal medicine.
That they have to take medicine when they eat their meals wasn't a big deal.
Since patients must inject themselves with the drugs, limiting side effects like depression and flu-like symptoms as well as making the interferon easier to take means more people will stay on their medicine.
Voters may be reluctant to take the unsavory medicine that will eventually restore their economic health.
The other 90% of the population who take the medicine are able to break codeine down in their cells to make morphine and hence receive a significant amount of pain relief.
The Prevention study found that a third of patients who saw an ad for their medicine felt better about its safety, were more likely to take it, and were reminded to re-order their prescription.
Transplant patients, who often have to take immunosuppressive drugs for long periods following surgery, could also potentially benefit from digitizing their medicine.
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Their traditional response is that by allowing the free-market to work in medicine, everything will take care of itself.
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Strictly defined, Private Health isn't part of the growing phenomenon known as concierge medicine, where doctors charge a retainer for more face-time and personal attention, and often take their practices off the commercial and government payment grid.
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