The American Board of Internal Medicine began the Choosing Wisely Campaign to encourage communication between patients and their healthcare providers and enable patients to choose healthcare that is ...

Credit: Getty Images Dr Erika Ramsdale discusses the risks and complications of polypharmacy in older adults, an increasingly prevalent medication management and public health issue. As the global ...

With accelerated population ageing and the growing prevalence of multimorbidity, polypharmacy in older adults has become a major challenge for medication safety and treatment effectiveness.

Multiple prescriptions for comorbidities can harm older adults. How to prevent combination drugs from fighting each other.

Taking five or more medications increased the risk of death, hospitalizations and ER visits in elderly patients with colorectal cancer. Recent research found an association between polypharmacy — ...

Polypharmacy, or the concurrent use of five or more medications, is common in older adults and increases the risk of adverse drug interactions. While deprescribing unnecessary drugs can combat this ...

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University ...

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A Call for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in Geriatric Patients A review of geriatric assessment tools and their role in assessing older patients with cancer before and after treatment. For many ...

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study shows. An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was ...