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 psychiatric...
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...meds to treat both illnesses is common practice. The atypical antipsychotics all came on the... Read more »
...treated for, and the current symptoms. As the newer, atypical antipsychotics become more widely... Read more »
...are now called new-generation antipsychotics, or atypical antipsychotics. The drug was first... Read more »
...disorder, doctors very commonly prescribe a newer atypical antipsychotic medication instead of... Read more »
... Aripiprazole is known as an antipsychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to... Read more »
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...drugs (e.g., phenothiazines such as chlorpromazine, atypical anti-psychotics such as clozapine... Read more »
...schizophrenia). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by... Read more »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Even though there have been safety warnings about antipsychotic drugs among the elderly, a new study shows seniors continue to... Read summary »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Abilify as an add-on treatment for people who suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD).... Read summary »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug called Fanapt for the treatment of schizophrenia. FDA officials say Fanapt will... Read summary »
By Lucy Williams, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Some patients undergoing treatment for mental illness gain so... Read summary »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A panel of government and health-industry experts has developed a list of 14 widely prescribed medications they say urgently... Read summary »