New research indicates that individuals living with dementia are being treated with potent antipsychotic medications for ...

This study highlights how antipsychotic prescribing in dementia is discordant with current NICE guidelines on both duration ...

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 ...

Expensive new antipsychotic drugs that are among the most widely prescribed pills in medicine are no more effective and no safer than an older, cheaper drug that has been largely discontinued, ...

Last month I wrote an open letter, as Chair of the International Institute of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, requesting that the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) reverse its ...

Through Week 56 in the SOLARIS trial, there were no suspected or confirmed post-injection delirium/sedation syndrome (PDSS) events observed with ...

Ms. Hemrajani and Mr. Kane have complementary strengths that will accelerate our strategic growth as we approach the ...

Antipsychotic use is linked to increased glucose and insulin levels in patients with severe mental illness regardless of dose ...

There has been much attention in the last three years or so on research showing that antidepressants have severe withdrawal effects for many people when they try to stop. It has also been known for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Metformin safely and effectively abrogates weight gain and adverse metabolic changes that occur with atypical antipsychotic drug therapy in children, a new study shows.

A panel of medical experts for the federal Food and Drug Administration is being asked to approve three powerful and expensive antipsychotic drugs for use in children. The FDA panel begins a two-day ...