Saturday, November 27, 2010

Study: thousands of patients never bother to pick up their prescriptions

Some experts are bemoaning the fact that not all drug patients are taking their medications. According to a new report out of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, thousands of Americans never pick up their drug prescriptions after ordering them because they either cost too much, or because they decide they do not really need or want them.

Previous research has found that many patients simply stop taking their drugs because of extreme negative side effects and lack of health improvement. So researchers decided to investigate prescription pick-up rates to see how many people never even make it to the drug store at all following a prescription order. Read more...

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