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Medicines adherence: Overcoming pharma’s biggest barrier to treatment success

Pharmaceutical Technology

To help healthcare providers encourage higher levels of medicines adherence, RPM and companion apps can provide encouragement by addressing the following areas: Doctor-patient relationships. These send reminders to the patient when it is time to take the medication, and sometimes include a checklist within the app.

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Grand Rounds March 1, 2024: Effect of an Intensive Food-As-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use: Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial (Joseph Doyle, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics MIT Sloan School of Management Slides Keywords Food-as-Medicine, Randomized Clinical Trial, Diabetes Key Points Diabetes is common and costly. Food-as-Medicine observational studies have had a large correlation with improved health. 9% of the U.S.

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Study points out opioid risks for patients transitioning to skilled nursing facilities

Scienmag

– Hospital patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities often bring a high-dose painkiller prescription with them, suggesting more attention should be paid to opioid safety for those patients, research from the Oregon State University College of Pharmacy shows. PORTLAND, Ore.

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UK university strikes e-prescribing partnership with Better

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A UK university has struck a partnership with medical technology firm Better that aims to give nursing and pharmacy students a better insight into e-prescribing. Nursing students will use the system in modules on how to administer medicines and in the university’s ‘high fidelity simulation’ of a hospital environment.

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Can you get Promethazine Cough Syrup?

Druggist

Promethazine is an antihistamine commonly available in the UK pharmacies. Promethazine, however, is included in some liquid medicines , which are used to relieve symptoms of colds and influenza at night , alongside other active ingredients, which together help with the management of coughs.

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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

The Institute of Medicine estimates the average patient in a healthcare facility experiences at least one medication error each day – leading to an estimated 1.5 Lastly, nurses can give a patient the wrong medication, or give a medication at the wrong time. Be sure you get the right medication at the pharmacy.

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23andMe makes $400m telehealth play, gulping down Lemonaid

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Lemonaid operates an on-demand platform for remotely accessing medical care and pharmacy services, including online consultations and prescription medicines delivery across the US.

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