People who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs—which include Crestor, Lipi1 tor, Pravachol and Zocor—are more likely to suffer delirium after surgery, a Canadian study indicates. Background Delirium is a common, and commonly neglected, experience for older people after any sort of...
When doctors prescribe medication, the goal is to reduce troubling symptoms—or even cure a particular medical condition. But sometimes a medication&...
Men who take aspirin "regularly" have significantly lower prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels than those who do not according to a...
Researchers in Egypt examined whether drinking green tea while taking an antibiotic would affect the medicine's ability to fight bacteria....
Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in the US. What most people don't realize is that because drug...
A drug currently used to treat nausea can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from illegal and prescription opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine...
The popular drug alendronate sodium (Fosamax) has been prescribed to millions of people (mostly women) suffering from osteoporosis, a weakening of the...
The proportion of people taking widely prescribed oral osteoporosis drugs who develop a nasty jaw condition may be much higher than previously...
When a pregnant woman with epilepsy takes the medication mal proate (Depakote), her baby's intelligence may be lowered for at...
Most people assume that lack of sleep is more of an annoyance than a legitimate threat to their health. But that'...
The statistics are shocking-23% of Americans age 60 and up now have diabetes, a deadly disease that can lead to heart disease,...
We're accustomed to thinking of viruses as "bad guys" that the world would be better without—but now...