Better regulatory policy is needed to curtail office detailing and direct-to-consumer drug advertising. Finally, there's a need for much wider awareness of the harms of medication overload.

From a flimsy plastic shower chair and a cheap pill box to an obtrusive grab bar added into a bathroom as an afterthought, the Remsen co-founders knew they could do better, which is why they ...

Open the medicine cabinet of a senior and you're likely to find scores of pill bottles. Physicians are often unaware of all the medications a patient is taking, which can result in unnecessary ...

The newspaper has run several half-page ads encouraging its readers to contact their representative and/or senator to oppose Biden-supported legislation that would hamper healthcare of the elderly ...

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(PHILADELPHIA) - Open the medicine cabinet of a senior and you're likely to find scores of pill bottles. Physicians are often unaware of all the medications a patient is taking, which can result ...

Modern medicine is turning healthy elderly people into patients, warns a senior doctor in an article published on bmj.com today.

The buzz machine for Sanofi-Aventis' Acomplia, the much-hyped, long-awaited cure-all of modern ills, got rolling three years ago, after the company presented astonishing clinical data at a meeting ...

With prescription drug abuse reaching epidemic proportions, police say there's a new face of drug dealing; the elderly.

Health insurer Anthem has teamed up with Walmart to expand its senior members' access to over-the-counter medications. Through a new partnership beginning in January 2019, Anthem's Medicare ...

Psychotherapy or stress management under the right supervision could be just as helpful as a pill, but those options often do not exist, or aren’t well known, in rural areas.

Sixty-two percent of seniors who received the empowerment intervention spoke to their health provider about reducing sleeping pill consumption.