When Stephanie Luehrs’s father began losing track of what day it was, she knew his pre-filled pill packs were no longer going to work, even though they were carefully labeled. So she bought him a high ...

Students from the University of Karachi’s Pharmacy Department have stunned experts by developing groundbreaking ...

And you thought that regular pill bottles were hard to open ... a new overdose-proof medication dispenser developed by a team of mechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University can't be ...

Every few years, a new startup takes a stab at automatic pill dispensers to help with drug adherence and to prevent people from accidentally dosing more than they should. Makes sense: For many of us, ...

NEWTOWN -- Marie Kreiser's father was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and he was forgetting to take his medications, she said. Every week Kreiser, 49, of Newtown, would drive to Yorktown, ...

Taking medication isn’t always as easy as popping a pill. Sometimes people are prescribed a variety of medicines, each with their own dosage and frequency — 100 milligrams twice a day, 50 milligrams ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. --The talking machine that dispenses pills looks vaguely like a coffeemaker, and it nags 87-year-old Doris Low relentlessly. "Time for your medication," its robotic voice announces ...