The adherence of Hungarian Type 2 diabetics in some areas does not reach optimal levels, especially for diet, self-monitoring, drug purchasing and adherence to drug taking.

This survey revealed that the general public has a high level of awareness concerning the abuse potential of over-the-counter medicines. Health care professionals should seek to understand and respect patients' choices to assure optimal care. Pharmacists could be more proactive in the management of inappropriate over-the-counter drug use.

In order for people to use non-prescription products properly, it would be definitely necessary to elaborate a successful national education strategy. The population expects information concerning medicaments to be communicated in the pharmacies in an understandable way. It should be in the pharmacy where patients learn about the medicaments they take, where the pharmacist knows what other medicines have been prescribed by a doctor, and whether patients have any illnesses whereby they should not take other products.

1‐Cyanomethylene‐6,7‐dimethoxy‐1,2,3,4‐tetrahydroisoquinolinium mesylate (10) readily reacted with α,β‐unsaturated aldehydes to afford 1‐azatrienes 12a–h, which could be cyclized to give 6,7‐dihydro‐4H‐benzo[a]quinolizines 14a–h. The reaction mechanisms were investigated by computational methods. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)

The results indicate that asthmatics experience lower QoL. As the subjects were regularly controlled asthmatics they had better general knowledge and inhaler-use technique was expected. The results suggest that it is necessary to regularly refresh asthma knowledge, to assess patients' self-management plans to achieve long-term effectiveness of asthma management.