Prescription Refill Appearance Change Puts Patients off Meds

from 60-Second Health · host Scientific American

When refilled prescriptions for post–heart attack care resulted in the same medication looking different in shape or color, patients were significantly more likely to stop taking their meds. Dina Fine Maron reports

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