Derek Blumke was on a cocktail of six different medications prescribed by doctors with the Department of Veterans Affairs. It was 2017 and the 12-year veteran of the Air Force and Michigan Air ...

Seniors can easily run out of room in their medicine cabinet. They are the largest consumer group of prescription and over-the-counter drugs in the U.S., with one in three older adults taking five or ...

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Bruce Hall, 81, directed a cab driver to take him from his Marin County, California, home to the Golden Gate Bridge. When they arrived, Bruce gave the driver all his money, got out of the car, and ...

Most of us trust the doctors and hospitals to figure out what medications our aging parents need to treat their various, sometimes complex medical conditions. But there is a problem with all that ...

Thousands of sick or seriously wounded troops who return to the U.S. from combat duty are assigned to special units called Wounded Warrior Battalions. The more than three dozen such battalions are at ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- An East Oakland nursing home is facing more allegations of reckless negligence, fraud, and now wrongful death. "It was a horror movie," said Kyomi Williams. Her father died ...

More is not always better when it comes to medication. In fact, overmedication can cause unnecessary health problems. The Early Show talk with Dr. Stacie Pinderhughes of the Mount Sinai/New York ...

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and 11 of their colleagues to introduce the Jason Simcakoski Memorial Opioid ...