It sometimes feels that the line between misinformation and fact has never been blurrier. Our federal government is recently back in the business of pedaling reckless and dangerous conspiracy theories ...

Buried in the charging documents in the George Floyd murder case is something called "excited delirium." One of the junior officers mentioned it during Floyd's arrest. We had never heard of excited ...

Everyone forgets where they put their keys or if they closed the garage door. But when does forgetfulness and confusion signal something more serious? A fast and unexpected change in thinking can be a ...

Hospital delirium is a temporary condition characterized by sudden confusion, emotional changes, and unusual behavior. It commonly affects older adults in hospital settings, but it can affect anybody.

SACRAMENTO — California is the first state to ban doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to the controversial diagnosis known as “excited delirium,” which a human-rights activist hailed ...

Delirium occurs often in patients with cancer, especially in advanced-stage disease, owing to acute precipitating factors such as infection or medication effects These precipitating factors are ...

Delirium is a sudden change in your alertness and thinking. People with delirium typically become confused and have trouble paying attention. Delirium is an abrupt change to your mental state. It ...

Delirium (sometimes called 'acute confusional state') is a common clinical syndrome characterised by disturbed consciousness, cognitive function or perception, which has an acute onset and fluctuating ...

We enrolled adults with respiratory failure or shock in the medical or surgical intensive care unit (ICU), evaluated them for in-hospital delirium, and assessed global cognition and executive function ...

Delirium is the most common neuropsychiatric complication seen in patients with cancer, and it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Increased health care costs, prolonged hospital ...

Adults with delirium in hospital or long-term care, and their family members and carers, are given information that explains the condition and describes other people's experiences of delirium.