From the flu vaccine to blood pressure medications, these drugs may provide an unexpected benefit: lowering dementia risk ...

Drugs designed to clear amyloid beta from the brain—once seen as a promising path to slowing Alzheimer’s—may not actually ...

A few common medications, like statins or drugs to treat high blood pressure, appear to help lower the risk for dementia. But ...

A major review has provoked a backlash after concluding the medicines provide too little benefit to be noticed.

Some vaccines, along with heart medications and other drugs, appear to have a protective benefit. By Dana G. Smith Getting ...

Initial prescriptions for medications affecting cognition, such as antipsychotics, are disproportionately likelier to come from acute and post-acute settings such as emergency rooms, hospitals, and ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Auvelity this week for the treatment of agitation in adults with ...

A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson's patients did the same for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. That's the result of a study in which the benefit was so clear, the trial was ...

When medical marijuana became legal in Massachusetts, she encouraged caregivers to try it in dementia patients with agitation ...

Getting yourself vaccinated against shingles doesn't just protect you against that painful and debilitating disease - it may also slash your risk of developing Alzheimer's by as much as 20%, according ...

Amyloid-beta plaques can harm neurons in the brain. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The list of ...