There are four medications approved in the UK to ease a person’s dementia symptoms, including memory and thinking problems: donepezil rivastigmine galantamine memantine. These treatments are only ...

5.3 million people are diagnosed every year with Alzheimer's, which is just one of the long list of diseases ... for treating ...

There is no cure for dementia or Alzheimer’s, but certain medications can help temporarily alleviate or slow down some symptoms. There is no cure for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease ...

2024 saw a new drug enter the dementia landscape, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Kisunla (donanemab) in July. This was the third new approval since 2021. Kisunla ...

New research indicates that medication used by hundreds of thousands in the UK could heighten the risk of dementia. Anticholinergics, prescribed to alleviate over-active bladders, work by reducing ...

Investigators assembled multiple UK cohorts to analyze a possible protective effect of dementia medications on age-related macular degeneration. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window ...

However, recent studies could change how we perceive these drugs after new findings suggest additional perks to these well-known treatments. The connection between various forms of dementia and ...