Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Gabapentinoids -- ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

[6] Older adults who have cholecystitis have symptoms of right upper quadrant or epigastric pain with tenderness over the gallbladder. Other signs may be absent—more than half of older adults ...

Study will track how adults 65 or older living with obesity respond to activity and nutrition coaching. Setting out to prove ...

A large-scale Australian study has found that older adults taking gabapentinoids — a common pain medication for nerve pain and epilepsy — face an increased risk of hip fracture, with especially high ...

Pain is the body's warning signal that something is wrong. Patients and physicians collaborate to identify and treat the ...

A new study by medicine safety experts found the use of gabapentinoids -- medicines widely used to treat neuropathic pain -- increased the risk of hip fractures, especially in older patients who were ...

Dr. Barbara Krantz, medical director of Older Adults Program, Withdrawal Management and Chronic Pain for Caron Treatment Centers in Florida, said her practice has seen a "significant uptick" in ...

The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, tracked patients hospitalized for hip fractures in Victoria, Australia from ...