Polypharmacy was associated with a nearly doubled increase in health care expenditures and a tripled increase in pharmacy expenditures among older patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

If you've heard the term "polypharmacy" used to talk about medication recently, you're not alone. But what is it, and are there risks? Below, experts discuss the oft-disputed definition of the term.

More than half of adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) had polypharmacy, defined as the concurrent use of five or more medications, a cross-sectional study found. Polypharmacy was ...

William Osler, M.D. was a famous American physician who died 100 years ago. He is responsible for several famous sayings, many of which concern over-prescribing of medications. One is “The desire to ...

People aging with HIV have more drug–drug interactions compared with those without HIV, according to results of an observational study. Results of an observational study revealed that for each ...

Patients with NSCLC taking five or more medications tended to have worse survival, highlighting the need for medication management, research showed. Older patients with advanced non-small cell lung ...

Global antipsychotic polypharmacy use increased significantly from 1970 to 2023, with 25% of antipsychotic users receiving multiple prescriptions, new research shows. Antipsychotic polypharmacy was ...

In patients with acute HF, polypharmacy is common and associated with multimorbidity and older age. Polypharmacy is common globally among patients with acute heart failure (HF) and is associated with ...

Learn about the importance of deprescribing, a process of reducing or stopping unnecessary medications, to improve patient ...

A total of 56.2% of Danish patients with dementia experienced polypharmacy — using five or more prescription drugs, according to a February study published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy. The study ...

While the U.S. has seen a decline in the overall number of overdose deaths, the news on drug use is not all trending ...