Two anti-psychotic drugs should not be used to treat older people with dementia due to an increased risk of stroke, medicines experts have warned. The Committee for the Safety of Medicines (CSM ...

Ask most health professionals what you can do to prevent or delay dementia, and you will likely be told to maintain a healthy diet, exercise regularly, control your blood pressure, blood sugar and ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Alzheimer's & Dementia, highlights these important findings. The researchers tested a five-drug combination consisting of a beta-blocker ...

they found that those who had long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) had a 12% lower risk of dementia. Meanwhile, short-term (less than one month) and intermediate-term ...

New research suggests that long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen could potentially lower your risk of ...

Drugs like Nexium, Prevacid, and Prilosec are called proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, and they've been linked to a bigger risk for dementia. PPIs reduce the amount of acid that your stomach makes.

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) may not be as well-known as other forms like Alzheimer’s, but is just as devastating, so the discovery that commonly used drugs may reduce the risk of the disease ...

An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's-related dementia in people destined to develop the disease in their 30s, 40s or 50s, according to the results of a new study.