Patients with cheaper drugs tended to take their medicine more consistently. A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that the cost difference between generic and brand-name drugs seems to be a big factor when it comes to sticking with a medicationâespecially when it comes to statins, one of the most-prescribed drugs in the country.
Atkins continued performing in the 1990s, but his health declined after he was diagnosed again with cancer in 1996. He died on June 30, 2001, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, ten days after his 77th birthday. His memorial service was held at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Jack Johnson was 68 when he died on June 10, 1946 in a crash near Raleigh, N.C. Harry Chapin, a 1970s folk-rock composer and performer, was killed when the car he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway in Jericho, N.Y., on July 16, 1981. He was 38 years old.