Health: One-Third

By DEPARTMENT Sunday, May. 29, 2005

Six months after they were prescribed potentially life-saving medications to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, only a third of patients were taking their pills, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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