A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An estimated quarter of traditional Medicare beneficiaries with dementia are prescribed risky, brain-altering drugs despite years ...

A recent study shows that combining magnetic brain scans with computer models can safely measure how dementia medications affect living human brains. This approach could replace invasive tests and ...

Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for deat ...

Nursing homes misuse antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, disguise practice as schizophrenia treatment, watchdog finds.

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 ...

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A considerable proportion of adults with MCI or dementia develop new cardiovascular indications for anticoagulant and thrombolytic drugs.

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False diagnoses are used to mask inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs on patients with dementia, a practice called chemical restraint, a government watchdog report said.