The drug company Johnson & Johnson hit double jeopardy this week. Already facing a huge recall of popular painkillers, J&J has been charged with paying tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks so nursing home patients would be prescribed more of its drugs.
One drug, Risperdal, for Alzheimer’s was later found to be dangerous.
The legal [...]

New study published in The Lancet adds fuel to the growing controversy over the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, especially for seniors.
The study of more than 3,500 Group Health patients age 65 found no link between flu vaccination and risk of pneumonia during three flu seasons.
“This suggests that the flu vaccine doesn’t protect seniors as [...]

Short-Term Use of antipsychotics in older adults With dementia associated with serious adverse events.
Older adults with dementia who receive short-term courses of antipsychotic medications are more likely to be hospitalized or die than those who do not take the drugs, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine.
“Newer antipsychotic drugs (olanzapine, quetiapine fumarate and [...]