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A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers.
A test scheme, which involved heart patients, cut the numbers who forgot or just stopped taking their pills.
One in six was helped to continue their treatment, reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke.
It has been estimated that the NHS spends more than £500m on wasted medicines and avoidable illness.
Other research has shown around a third of patients do not take their medicine as directed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30348499
A test scheme, which involved heart patients, cut the numbers who forgot or just stopped taking their pills.
One in six was helped to continue their treatment, reducing their risk of heart attack and stroke.
It has been estimated that the NHS spends more than £500m on wasted medicines and avoidable illness.
Other research has shown around a third of patients do not take their medicine as directed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30348499