PITTSBURGH, June 13, 2024 – New University of Pittsburgh research points to a potential approach to reducing the risk of diabetes associated with widely prescribed antipsychotic medications. The study ...

Researchers have found in a new study that COVID-19 infection is associated with significantly elevated blood concentrations ...

A study analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that residents who were given antipsychotic medications showed a ...

Antipsychotic medications are overprescribed in long-term care. They are powerful medications with a host of potential adverse reactions, including death. Government agencies and surveyors follow the ...

A federal quality measure intended to prevent inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes is restricting access to “safe and effective treatments” for many residents with Alzheimer's and ...

Parkinson’s patients taking antipsychotic medications have a significant increased risk of death, according to a new study published in JAMA Neurology and covered by News Medical. For the study, ...

In a recent British Medical Journal study, researchers assess the adverse effects associated with the use of antipsychotic drugs in people with dementia. Study: Multiple adverse outcomes associated ...

Since the first antipsychotic medication, chlorpromazine, was developed in the early 1950s, it could be argued that not all that much has changed in the pharmacological treatment of psychotic ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that ...