The latest findings, published in the medical journal BMJ, show a "substantial" link between certain anticholinergic drugs ...

Many drugs commonly prescribed to the elderly have anticholinergic properties. Due to the current clinical use of drugs with mild-to-modest anticholinergic activity, the clinical manifestations of ...

Anticholinergic drugs are drugs that block the action of acetylcholine—a chemical messenger in your brain that plays a role ...

Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic drugs in chronic asthma management has been largely underestimated.

A new study from the University of California, San Diego has found that a common class of drugs may increase the risk of cognitive decline, especially in people who are at higher risk for Alzheimer’s ...

Scopolamine, a belladonna alkaloid, is an anticholinergic. Scopolamine acts: i) as a competitive inhibitor at postganglionic muscarinic receptor sites of the parasympathetic nervous system ...

As people age, some memory decline is normal. However, if a common medicine speeds up this process, it becomes a serious ...