An increasing number of elderly patients nationwide are on multiple medications to treat chronic diseases, raising their chances of dangerous drug interactions and serious side effects. Often the ...

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Parikh’s elderly patient is like many across the country. According to a 2006 study, more than 50 percent of older Americans are taking as many as five or more medications .

Appropriate medication use is paramount for all patients but can be particularly important among the elderly, who tend to be more sensitive to side effects and more often have chronic conditions ...

Here's how to help older patients manage their medication. Jan. 31, 2011— -- Adults 65 and older use more medicine daily than any other age group in the United States, accounting for 34 ...

YouScript predictive medication analytics, a clinical decision support tool used by doctors to guide genetic testing and improve drug treatments, has been shown to cut ER visits by almost ...

Current recommendations suggest treating elderly CLL patients with good physical status and low burden of comorbidities with chemoimmunotherapy, consisting of non-fludarabine-based regimens.

An elderly patient might take the wrong dose, forget doses or mix up the order in which drugs should be taken. Add to this the issue of dementia: more common, of course, among people over 65.

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Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory stating that atypical antipsychotic medications increase mortality among elderly patients. However, the advisory did not apply to ...