Whole Network Most Recent TOP10 Diagnostics News Studies Treatment

« Early detection of Down... | Main | Outpatient angioplasty... »

Sedatives and the elderly

Filed in archive Miscellany by kevin on November 11, 2005

Up to a third of elderly people in the UK are prescribed sleeping pills because they are affected by insomnia.

Canadian researchers detail an analysis of 24 studies in a report in the British Medical Journal.

They conclude that the risk of side effects such as dizziness, loss of balance, falls, and disorientation outweighed the benefits of such drugs.

Permalink: Sedatives and the elderly
Tags: sedatives elderly

Trackback: http://www.creative-weblogging.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.pl/11027

Related Entries:

Redheads and skin cancer - 29 August 2005

The FDA blocks an injectable COX-2 - 21 September 2005

cataract surgery: a patient's vivid account - 08 February 2006

Caring for the Elderly - 09 February 2007

Regular High Caffeine Intake Protects the Elderly from Heart... - 27 February 2007

Neuroleptics Cause Early Death in Alzheimer's Patients - 02 April 2007

Care of Diabetic Elderly in Nursing Homes Needs Improvement - 29 May 2007

Vote for Sedatives and the elderly:

Currently 8.00/10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Rating: 8.0 out of 1 vote(s) cast.

RSS	\| See all blog subscribe options
Google	\| What is RSS?
Yahoo!
Addthis
Bloglines
Newsletter

Use the search to look for other interesting posts

Check out our Sponsored Blogs!
The Mobile Technology Weblog

Contributors (Last 90 days)
Gloria Gamat (45)
This site has 1468 entries and is powered by Creative Weblogging since July 2005.
Do you want to start or edit an existing blog for us and get paid? More info.
Do you want to advertise on this blog? We have great ideas!
Do you have tips for us? Send them!

Advertise with us
Learn more about our advertising options or email advertising - at - creative-weblogging.com or give Luis a call at +1 (650) 331 8047.

Testimonials
'Thanks, for a very interesting and informative Blog.'

'Thanks for doing this; it's a terrific site.'

'I don't know...but why I don't find such informative and profitable blogs so often, I suspect blogging world is becoming so small that we can't find such lucrative blogs like this one.'

Health & Medicine - Top Blogs Philippines

Other blogs in the same channel in the Creative Weblogging Network

Disclaimer
Some of the contents of this site are protected Creative Weblogging Ltd. 2004-2008.

Add your response to Sedatives and the elderly:
Name: *	Email: (will never be shown)*	URL:

(* marked fields are required)
Notify me if more comments appear?	Subscribe to Straightfromthedoc newsletter? (Newsletters are sent out weekly).	Remember me
Security Code: * (Please help us to sort out spam.)

Please enter your comment here: (Sorry, no HTML is allowed - URLs will be made clickable automatically if you add http:// to your URL.)


We welcome your comments, however all comments are moderated. Offensive or off-topic comments will be deleted and not displayed.

Tell a friend about Sedatives and the elderly
Recipient email:*	Your email:*

(* Both email addresses are required for sending this article. They will never be shown or used for any marketing purposes)
Please enter a message which will be shown together with the article:

Security Code: (Please help us to sort out spam.)

Sedatives and the elderly

Filed in archive Miscellany by kevin on November 11, 2005

Related Entries:

Vote for Sedatives and the elderly:

Add your response to Sedatives and the elderly:

Tell a friend about Sedatives and the elderly

Check out our Sponsored Blogs!

Our Editors recommend

Contributors (Last 90 days)

Categories

Archives

Advertise with us

Most popular

Testimonials

Recent Comments

Other blogs in the same channel in the Creative Weblogging Network

Life Sciences

Disclaimer

Find more recent entries from our other publications:

Daily Diabetic

The Biotech Weblog

Allergies

Home Based Business

On Storage

Networking for Pros