As we strive to maintain our health and well-being, it's important to understand how different medications can affect our long-term cognitive function. Many commonly prescribed and over-the-counter ...

Many people take medicines every day to manage common health problems like high blood pressure, allergies, or depression.

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and ...

Benzodiazepine and antipsychotics — medications that are primarily used to treat symptoms like anxiety, agitation and delirium — may contribute to a higher risk of death among dementia patients in ...

That bottle of pills in the medicine cabinet might be helping one health problem while quietly creating another. Millions of Americans take prescription medications daily without realizing these drugs ...

An estimated quarter of traditional Medicare beneficiaries with dementia are prescribed risky, brain-altering drugs despite years of clinical guidelines cautioning against the practice, a new study ...

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...

When medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, she encouraged caregivers to try it in dementia patients with agitation ...

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and ...

A comprehensive study encompassing more than 160,000 dementia patients has revealed something alarming. The medication risperidone has been linked to an elevated stroke risk across all groups of ...