Antipsychotics are among the most effective drugs used in psychiatry and reach the level of efficacy common for accepted medications in other fields of medicine. As shown by a number of double-blind ...

In every state across America, Medicaid programs are under serious budgetary pressure. The need to contain costs has led to various forms of restriction in the coverage for drug therapy, including ...

In every state across America, Medicaid programs are under serious budgetary pressure. The need to contain costs has led to various forms of restriction in the coverage for drug therapy, including ...

Under usual practice conditions, patients treated with risperidone had improved outcomes with reduced psychiatric symptoms and side effects compared with conventional antipsychotic agents. Risperidone ...

This was a prospective cohort study examining the incidence rate of tardive dyskinesia (TD) among 352 outpatients receiving atypical and/or typical antipsychotic medications at a community mental ...

Conventional antipsychotics, antidepressants and benzodiazepines often administered to nursing home residents are no safer than atypical antipsychotics and may carry increased risks, according to an ...

STANFORD, Calif. - Nearly 5 million people in the United States suffer from schizophrenia or manic depression, making antipsychotics the fourth-highest selling class of drugs. But how effectively do ...

Older, conventional antipsychotic medications can increase the risk of death in some elderly patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Monday. The agency called for the drugs to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is poised to regulate a "potential first-in-class antipsychotic", known as KarXT, said Medscape. About one in 300 people worldwide are affected by ...

Switching to clozapine after a first schizophrenia relapse was associated with a lower risk of second relapse compared with other strategies, a population-based cohort study in Finland found. The risk ...

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - Older, conventional antipsychotic medications should carry a "black box" warning about an increased risk of death in some elderly people being treated for ...