With this tool, a fall-risk score is based on a patient's mental status, cognition, mobility, vision, history of falls, urinary urgency or incontinence, and medications. Patients receive points ...
With the recent approval of tolterodine and oxybutynin XL, we believe that the list of agents previously considered first- and second-line medications for the overactive bladder needs to be revised.
At this time there are no drugs approved in the United States to treat SUI. If you have both SUI and OAB (Mixed Incontinence), your health care provider may prescribe OAB drugs or treatments. These ...
Symptoms can range from acute (short-term) mania to depression and depressive episodes. Luckily, multiple treatments exist that can help you manage the condition. Medications such as mood stabilizers, ...
At times, healthcare providers prescribe medications for a purpose the drug was not initially FDA-approved for. This is called off-label prescribing. SSRIs are sometimes prescribed off-label for ...
Promoting the appropriate use of these drugs helps maintain Canada's high public health standards. Among its initiatives related to antimicrobial resistant infections, Health Canada has created a ...
While the flu shot is widely recommended, doctors are advising people to be careful about the medications they use before or after they get vaccinated because some drugs could decrease the vaccine ...