Antipsychotic Articles

Medicaid Children Get 4x More Antipsychotics

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

If you’re a child in Medicaid, you already have a more difficult life than average ahead of you. Children in Medicaid programs have nearly twice …

10 Ways to Manage Your Weight on Psych Meds

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

10 Ways to Manage Your Weight on Psych MedsAwhile back, a Beyond Blue reader asked me to address the …

9 Myths of Bipolar Disorder

Friday, June 12th, 2009

9 Myths of Bipolar DisorderBipolar disorder has been the focus of attention in …

Hiding Akathisia in Abilify

Monday, May 11th, 2009

What if your new drug has an unwanted side effect that’s going to impact sales if it becomes widely known? Well, in the case of …

Surprise Approval of Fanapt Makes Stock Go Wild

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Shares of Vanda Pharmaceuticals, the makers of Fanapt (iloperidone), surged today after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sprang a surprise drug approval for Fanapt …

Zyprexa Redux

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock in the past few years, you’ve probably heard about Zyprexa (olanzapine). It’s an atypical antipsychotic psychiatric medication …

Antipsychotic Use in Elderly, Alzheimer’s

Friday, January 9th, 2009

A rebuke to years of off-label marketing by pharmaceutical companies behind closed doctors’ doors was just published in the form of a journal article demonstrating …

FDA Advisors: Stop the Overuse of Atypical Antipsychotics in Children

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

During a routine review of the safety of Johnson & Johnson’s atypical antipsychotic Risperdal and Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa, a panel of experts consulting with the …

Did Eli Lilly Downplay Zyprexa’s Health Risks?

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

A New York City federal judge ordered drug company Eli Lilly to unseal confidential documents concerning the popular antipsychotic drug Zyprexa (Olanzapine) this past …

Psychiatrists, MDs Ignore CATIE, Keep Prescribing Atypicals

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Seroquel Sales Soar

My old hometown newspaper, The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.) had a nice write-up of Seroquel’s big explosion in …

Treating Bipolar Disorder in Children

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

A letter to the editor in today’s The Boston Globe by Janet Wozniak suggests that since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved …

Older Antipsychotics Get Warning Too

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I’m not real sure why this was making headlines yesterday, but apparently the fact that the FDA required a black box warning on older antipsychotic …

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