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Generic color switch tied to not taking pills

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People seem less likely to take their medications if the pill color changes between prescriptions, which can happen when switching from a brand-name to generic drug, says a new study. “I have a lot of experience when patients of mine come and say, ‘I was taking a green pill and now it’s pink. What’s going on?'” said Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, the study’s lead author from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. …

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Oops: Harvard affiliate apologizes for promotion of "weak" study

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision earlier this week to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer, now saying the evidence was “weak.” Brigham and Women’s Hospital said in an e-mail to reporters that data in the paper, which was published Wednesday in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, “is weak, and that Brigham and Women’s Hospital media relations was premature in the promotion of this work.” The hospital apologized to reporters for wasting their time. …