The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning to physicians that conventional antipsychotic medication, used to treat behavioral problems in elderly people suffering from dementia, can increase their risk of death.
Conventional antipsychotic medications, also known as major tranquillizers, include haloperidol, thioridazine, fluphenazine, thiothixene, pimozide, trifluoperazine and perphenazine. Some of these drugs have been used since the 1960s. They revolutionized...
