Adherence compliance and concordance

Non-adherence: medicine’s weakest link

Non-adherence to prescribed medicines is one of the biggest obstacles to effective healthcare, impacting on patients, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare systems. Pharmacists are ideally placed to improve adherence, but are effective interventions available and how can …

Smoking cessation services: how nicotine replacement therapy and counselling through pharmacy can support adherence and quitting

Smoking is the primary cause of preventable ill health and death in the UK. Pharmacists and pharmacy teams are well placed to provide stop-smoking services, which are cost-effective interventions to help people give up smoking.…

Patients need access to comprehensible information and their summary care records

This letter is in response to ‘Health literacy, medication adherence and thriving healthcare systems: connecting the dots’. This is an excellent, thought-provoking article that reinforces the need to discuss further the various components of patient education and information, …

Digital ingestion tracking system in pills and medication adherence: future advantages and current limitations

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval of the first-ever digital pill, Abilify MyCite, an aripiprazole tablet for the treatment of schizophrenia, marks the closest we have come to revolutionising the way the uptake of pills is monitored[1] . On a global scale, the …

Antithrombotic agents associated with haematuria

Antithrombotic medications increase risk of complications linked to blood in the urine…

Encouraging adherence to low-dose aspirin important to public health

A study finds that discontinuing low-dose aspirin is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, and that the risk does not decrease over time.…

Health literacy, medication adherence and thriving healthcare systems: connecting the dots

Medication adherence is not only the mantra of modern medicine, but also the catalyst to achieve prevention, cure, and wellbeing.…

Non-invasive glucose monitoring for people with diabetes

Skin sensor could help people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar when exercising.…

Medication non-adherence in breast cancer prevention and treatment

Balkees Abderrahman highlights the problem of medication non-adherence in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.…

Making drugs work better: four new drug delivery methods

New drug delivery methods have started to emerge that aim to improve efficacy, cost-effectiveness and adherence as well as reduce side effects.…