With high levels of poverty in the province, sharing medicine of any sort may provide a social safety net for rural poor, as many medications are costly.
Second, participants reported using less than the recommended dosage or skipping doses, and sharing medicines.
They also felt HMRs would assist patients to learn about potential dangers in storing medicines and sharing medicines.
In addition, some participants admitted using less than the recommended dosage or skipping doses, and sharing medicines with other diabetes patients.
Appropriate home medication management was described as appropriate storage of medicines, having a drug administration schedule, absence of medication duplication, absence of drug hoarding or keeping expired medicines, not sharing medicines and having one prescriber for a disease condition [ 9].
Reduction in the frequency of taking meds and sharing medicines among family members were particularly concerning as noted by participants: "The concern is they're supposed to be under medications that's twice per day and they're only taking it once.
All of the scientists who shared both Medicine and Chemistry Nobels this year work at labs in the US.
Last year, psychologists Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest at the University of Amsterdam shared the medicine Ig Nobel for their discovery that breathing difficulties brought on by asthma can be alleviated by repeated rollercoaster rides.
Kissing studies shared the medicine prize, with Slovakian scientists interested in the amount of DNA left behind after a bout of intense snogging – which they said was useful for forensic science.
This study was conducted in the emergency departments of two Midwestern urban tertiary care centers with a shared emergency medicine residency program.
But we should heed Dr. Jack Szostak, the London-born Canadian cum American who shared the medicine prize, who cautions that the world has become much more competitive in science.
