Medication Adherence

Electronic monitoring devices supported short-term adherence to asthma medication, with sustained improvements in asthma control, according to an abstract presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

PHILADELPHIA — Many patients with mild traumatic brain injury have central sensitization, a pain that requires a different therapeutic approach than nociceptic pain, according to a study by Christopher File, BSA, and colleagues.

Long-acting injectable cabotegravir/rilpivirine paired with extensive support services for nonsuppressed people with HIV with adherence barriers would likely increase viral suppression and improve survival, researchers found.

A systematic literature review determined that various classes of blood pressure-lowering medication reduced frequency of migraine days per month compared with placebo, according to a study published in Cephalalgia.

INDIANAPOLIS — For adults with narcolepsy, a switch in treatment to Xywav was safe, efficacious and preferred over treatment with Xyrem on a gram-for-gram basis, according to Wayne Macfadden, MD, in a Healio video from SLEEP 2023.

INDIANAPOLIS — Three out of four adults with insomnia reported better sleep after engaging in sex before bedtime, and most felt medication had similar or worse effect on sleep, according to survey data presented at the SLEEP annual meeting.

CHICAGO — Adults with tardive dyskinesia prescribed deutetrabenazine had better adherence and were less likely to discontinue treatment compared with those on valbenazine, although the differences were not statistically significant.

More than half of people with bipolar disorder in Finland did not have at least one of their mood stabilizers or antipsychotic prescriptions dispensed, according to findings published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Black patients and those on Medicaid had lower rates of adherence to biologics prescribed for asthma, often due to patient-level barriers, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Patients prescribed a higher number of overall medications had a lower probability of initiating or achieving optimal guideline-directed medical therapy for HF, despite higher risk for long-term outcomes, data show.