Almost 44 thousand dementia patients in the UK are being given antipsychotic drugs that increase the risk of strokes and death.

Bernie Sanders, a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2020, has compared pharmaceutical company executives to murderers.

New government figures show that UK doctors prescribed antidepressant drugs to more than one million people aged 18 to 20 last year.

Researchers in the United States say millions of people who take aspirin every day to prevent heart attacks should stop using the drug.

The originators of a new wearable chemotherapy ‘backpack’ are promoting it by claiming it will allow people to receive the toxic treatment ‘in comfort’ in their own homes, or even while they ‘pop to the shops’.

The number of Australians over the age of 70 taking five drugs or more a day has risen to nearly one million people and is still increasing, according to a new study led by The University of Western Australia in collaboration with The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Researchers looking at the health records of 4,683 men and women found that those prescribed statin drugs for lowering cholesterol had at least double the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Researchers have found that anticholinergic drugs, used to treat people with epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, depression and incontinence, could increase the risk of dementia by almost 50 percent.