Compliance With Hypertensive Therapy To the Editor: Halpern et al1 propose studies to evaluate patients’ compliance and persistence with hypertensive therapy. I have been in academic medicine and private practice for 42 years, many spent treating hypertensive patients. In the 1960s and 1970s we had poorly tolerated antihypertensive medications, and that was the most common cause for noncomplian...

BACKGROUND Non-compliance rates with antipsychotic medication can be high, and the personal and societal costs are considerable. A new psychological intervention, compliance therapy seeks to improve compliance and patient outcomes and reduce treatment costs. METHOD A randomised controlled study examined the cost-effectiveness of compliance therapy compared to non-specific counselling over 18 ...

Non-compliance with prescribed antipsychotic medication is common among people diagnosed with schizophrenia and is associated with high relapse rates. Compliance therapy is an intervention to promote compliance, developed from motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy. This mini-review aims to examine the evidence for the effect of compliance therapy on promoting compliance wi...

Background: Thalassemia is a series of hemoglobinopathies in which the production of perfect hemoglobin is completely or partially suppressed. Using injectable iron chelators have been dominating treatment for the iron overload caused by recurrent blood transfusions in thalassemic patients, however, a new oral iron chelating drug (Exjade) have been recently introduced and might be cost effec...

background: thalassemia is a series of hemoglobinopathies in which the production of perfect hemoglobin is completely or partially suppressed. using injectable iron chelators have been dominating treatment for the iron overload caused by recurrent blood transfusions in thalassemic patients, however, a new oral iron chelating drug (exjade) have been recently introduced and might be cost effectiv...