Warning: The video featured in this story could be found disturbing by some audiences. The shrieks and full-throated screams coming from inside Wesley Garrett-Henry's room were unsettling as if ...

ST. LOUIS -- Despite a shortage of lethal-injection drugs, two of the nation's most active death-penalty states have quietly carried on with executions by turning to pentobarbital, a powerful sedative ...

Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a trespassing call in a Wisconsin parking lot ...

“Transitioning insomnia care for older adults away from long-term sedative use and toward cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia can be achieved using a mailed, direct-to-patient approach,” wrote ...

The prevalence of diagnosed disorders from recurrent use of sedative, hypnotic and anti-anxiety medications in adolescents and young adults has increased sharply since 2001, according to researchers.

Older adults who were deprescribed sedatives after hospital discharges were 61% less likely to have adverse drug events within 30 days of leaving the hospital. That is according to a report published ...

I love visiting the vet with my cat. But, like many cats, sometimes she needs medicine to keep her calm. I talked about that with my friend Lais Malavasi. She’s a veterinarian at Washington State ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of older ICU survivors who filled a new sedative prescription filled it again within 6 months of ...

Adverse events associated with taking opioid pain medications increase in patients who concurrently use sedatives and alcohol. A study in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society, ...

Dental anxiety can be so extreme for some patients that a simple cotton swab on the gums makes them flinch, and other patients, fearful of pain, simply avoid seeing the dentist, according to the ...