Researchers analyzed Medicare claims data to find that an estimated 25 percent of dementia patients were prescribed risky medications, including antidepressants and antipsychotics.

Despite longstanding guidelines, many dementia patients are still prescribed brain-altering medications that can raise the ...

This is a prescription for disaster. While all medications carry potential side effects, certain types have been shown to increase the risk of falls, confusion and even hospitalization among older ...

Questionable prescribing of CNS-active drugs persists ...

Many seniors with dementia are being put at risk by brain-altering medications linked to falls, confusion and hospitalization ...

New safety study links sedative use to increased stroke risk. A large UK study involving more than 165,000 people with dementia has found that the drug risperidone increases the risk of stroke in all ...

Years after doctors were warned to be cautious, many Americans with dementia continue to receive medications that can worsen confusion, increase falls and raise the risk of serious harm.

SHANGHAI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's medicine regulator has ordered a halt to the import, sale and usage of a drug used to ...

A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson's patients did the same for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. That's the result of a study in which the benefit was so clear, the trial was ...

Tammy McDaid describes how she had a panic attack after waking up on Tate's birthday.