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Receiving six or more prescriptions of the drug gabapentin for low back pain is associated with significantly increased risks of developing dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)--29% and 85%, ...

Many of the prescription drugs that are commonly abused or misused are brands most people have heard of. Painkillers, also known as opioids, are the most frequently abused ones, per data from the New ...

A widely prescribed drug for chronic pain may carry hidden risks for brain health, especially among younger adults. A new study conducted by American researchers using data from more than 26,000 ...

High blood pressure adds extra caution to your day, the medications you use to treat health conditions come with side effects, and side effects rarely seem to make sense without a medical degree. That ...

Regular gabapentin use appeared to increase risk of dementia by 29% and mild cognitive impairment by 85%, researchers reported n the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. Photo by ...

Two of the problematic drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, have a fundamentally undocumented and often very modest ...

The anti-seizure drug gabapentin is used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain after shingles and restless legs syndrome by affecting chemical messengers in the brain and nerves. Common side effects include ...

The temporal relationship between the development of symptoms about three days after gabapentin discontinuation and the absence of any improvements during the administration of benzodiazepines for ...

As with all observational studies, the researchers caution that a solid cause-and-effect link can't be established between dementia and gabapentin; however, they feel that their analysis of a large ...

Sunshine Biopharma’s Canadian subsidiary, Nora Pharma has launched Gabapentin, a new generic prescription drug in the therapeutic class of anticonvulsants. Gabapentin is a generic version of Neurontin ...