A Luxembourgish researcher recently drew attention to the danger of wrong medication intake in her doctoral thesis.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), half of patients suffering from chronic diseases have trouble taking their medication correctly. In some cases, people even abandon their treatment altogether because they either forget it or do not understand the use of it.
This problem was recently analysed in Luxembourg for a first time. Catherine Goetzinger focused on medication for breast cancer patients in her doctoral thesis and found that many patients are overburdened by the process and feel left alone.
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