Simplify, simplify, simplify! So instructed the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who
believed a life lived simply was a life better lived, in his 157-year-old classic book Walden …

If a safe, inexpensive, once-a-day pill could substantially reduce the risk of myocardial
infarction (MI) or stroke, would people want it? Most would probably say yes because MI and …

Now, a controversial, and seemingly counterintuitive, effort to tackle the problem is gaining
ground: paying people money to take medicine or to comply with prescribed treatment. The …

Individuals, families, health plans and governments are struggling with the growing
importance of managing chronic, non-communicable diseases. People in many countries …

It pays to pay attention to drug costs, as prescription outlays rise as much as 20 percent a
year at many health plans. Despite a wave of direct-to-consumer ads for pricey new meds …

Objectives: To present a methodology for identifying specific medications for which pill
splitting is clinically appropriate and cost saving, to present data from a commercial …

Previous research suggests that polypharmacy is a significant challenge for health care
systems. However, polypharmacy has been defined in at least 24 distinct ways, which has …

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering,
and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed …

Patients with multiple chronic condi-tions (MCCs) face enormous challenges in terms of
adherence to guideline-driven care, especially when there are individual guidelines for each …

he opposing commentaries by Horn1 and Curtiss2 in the September 15 issue of AJHP are
incomplete and may mislead many readers about the costeffectiveness of formularies in …