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It seems like it should be a simple task, but as anyone prescribed a long-term drug knows, taking medications regularly and properly can be challenging. In fact, the problem is so widespread that people typically only take half of the dosages of medications they’re supposed to. There are different reasons: Drug labels can sometimes be difficult …
Medications that keep blood pressure levels in check — also known as ACE inhibitors — play a critical role in keeping patients who have been hospitalized with heart failure healthy. Omitting these drugs or nonadherence to the treatment regimen could lead to worsening symptoms, disease progression, and emotionally and financially costly readmission. So you would assume that ACE …
Combining innovative technology with specially trained community pharmacists, Express Scripts — through its groundbreaking SOCRxATES® program — is playing an even more integral role in helping patients improve adherence to chronic therapies. The SOCRxATES program addresses several vital aspects of real healthcare reform. It transforms traditional competitors into collaborators; creates a partnership across private business, public employers and …
How is it that people with heart failure receive prescriptions for diabetes medications known to worsen heart failure? Or women with a history of life-threatening blood clots can be prescribed estrogen products known to cause blood clots? Drug-disease interactions are a major safety issue and too often go undetected until it’s too late. Such medication …
Valentine’s Day comes once a year, but Express Scripts cardiovascular specialist pharmacists play Cupid every day by making sure patients have a lasting relationship with their medication. One in six Americans has high cholesterol and nearly one-third of American adults — 76 million individuals — have hypertension or high blood pressure. Both are conditions that can cause …
