The Lymphoma Medicine Cabinet

The family medicine cabinet.

Medicine selection and storage was examined in 130 families. Over 50 per cent were found to be less than adequate. Health education advice helped half the inadequate group to change to adequate. Age and social class were not related to hoarding of prescribed drugs, to initial standards of storage or selection, nor to the likelihood of a response to advice. Those who hoarded medicines but stored...

Stocking oncology's medicine cabinet.

Improving Medical Adherence using Smart Medicine Cabinet Monitoring System

Received Aug 13, 2017 Revised Nov 11, 2017 Accepted Nov 27, 2017 Patients at home may forget to take their medicines on time, miss doses or even take overdoses. This particularly applies to the elderly at home. Hence, this paper presents a monitoring system to improve the medical adherence which is based on Internet of Things (IoT) concept known as smart medicine cabinet monitoring system. The ...

Magic Medicine Cabinet: A Situated Portal for Consumer Healthcare

In this paper, we introduce a smart appliance for consumer healthcare called “Magic Medicine Cabinet.” It integrates such technologies like smart labels, face recognition, health monitoring devices, flat panel displays, and the Web to provide situated support for a broad range of health needs, including condition monitoring, medication reminders, interactions with one’s own pharmacists and phys...

Nature's Medicine Cabinet: Notes on Botanical Therapeutics at the Birth of the New World

The period 51Telehing from Columbus's fin;1 VOYlge in 149210 lhe mid-seventeenth cen­ tury was a fonna\lve period in the development of medicine, especially botllnicallhe:l1l' peutics. This brief paper oUllines the evolulion of 1mowledge of medicinal planlS during Ihis period, which also SllW Ihe exploration of the New WOl1d. Old World Therapeutics Therapeutics in the Old World underwent a deep...