A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.

Over 30 million Americans take antidepressants. Researchers found four specific types with ties to cognition loss later in ...

A global expert review has identified a shingles vaccine and two existing drugs as leading candidates for repurposing against ...

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 ...

Programs that match caregivers with patient navigators yield better outcomes than Alzheimer's drug – but combining the two ...

“Pothead” could one day get a whole new meaning. A new study suggests low doses of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in ...

A new study finds THC, when combined with an anti-inflammatory drug, improved memory and reduced Alzheimer’s-related brain damage in mice, raising hope for future treatment.

A commonly taken drug for lower back pain could raise the risk of developing dementia by up to 40 per cent, concerning research suggests. Gabapentin, sold as Neurontin, was approved on the NHS in the ...

Dr. Scott Turner does his best to treat patients with memory disorders such as dementia. While there are treatments that may temporarily help, there's no cure for dementia, which is why a new study is ...

Have you ever heard the old story about a person searching for lost keys under a streetlamp? When asked why there, the answer was simple: “That’s where the light is.” ...

Medications commonly used to treat dementia could result in harmful weight loss, according to UC San Francisco researchers, and clinicians need to account for this risk when prescribing these drugs to ...

Reducing cholesterol levels might not just be good for your heart; they might also be effective at reducing your risk of dementia, according to a comprehensive meta-analysis involving close to a ...