50 Percent Of Patients Don't Take Prescription Medications According To Guidance

Saturday, November 22, 2014 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

It's a story as old as medicine. When it comes to treatments, people don't always obey the written word. When it comes to antibiotics, for example, people may stop taking them when they feel better so they can save them for another incident.  Prescription medication guidelines are written specifically, to help people get the effect. So why do only 50 patient of patients take prescription medication as they should, 160 years after medicine became a proper field? read more

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