BMJ  2003;327:876 (11 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7419.876-a

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Taking medicine, the theme of this week's BMJ, is an experience shared by all of us at some point in our lives. For the lucky, medicine taking is confined to the odd painkiller. For others it involves accommodating complex and inflexible medication regimes into their daily lives (p 837). Assuming the right drug is prescribed in the first place, the success of medication relies on remembering when and how to take it (tablets and suppositories are all too easily confused—see p 863).

MedicAlarm (www.medicalarm.co.uk) offers products designed so that you "never forget your medicine again!" They range from a beeping electronic pill box with a handy self contained slug of water, to a vibrating sports wrist watch "for everybody who does not want the world around him or her to know they are on medication." That is, until your arm starts vibrating.

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