A look at adherence with subcutaneous immunotherapy without out-of-pocket patient costs.

Background: Subcutaneous Immunotherapy (SCIT) provides long-lasting benefits when administered for 3 to 5 years.

Objective: We evaluated SCIT adherence and factors associated with adherence in a military health care system with no out-of-pocket expenses.

Methods: We performed a combined retrospective and prospective observational electronic medical record review of SCIT from 2005 to 2012 to determine the start of therapy, time to maintenance dose (MD), duration of MD, and associated factors.

Prism adaptation magnitude has differential influences on perceptual versus manual responses.

Previous research has indicated that rightward prism adaptation can reduce symptoms of spatial neglect following right brain damage. In addition, leftward prism adaptation can create "neglect-like" patterns of performance in healthy adults on tasks that measure attention and spatial biases. Although a great deal of research has focused on which behaviors are influenced by prism adaptation, very few studies have focused directly on how the magnitude of visual shift induced by prisms might be related to the observed aftereffects, or the effects of prisms on measures of attentional and spatial biases.