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 ...

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.

Dr Shah's intervention comes amid growing concern about research into the impact regularly taking drugs known as anticholinergics, which include diphenhydramine. One shocking study, published in ...