Lawsuits filed over Risperdal drug side effects
-Philly Inquirer
01/08/2010 - A Philadelphia law firm yesterday said it filed 10 lawsuits on behalf of boys and young men who developed serious side effects - including the growth of breasts - while taking the antipsychotic medications Risperdal and Invega. More>>>

(Yet More) Negative Study Results with Blockbuster Anti-Psychotic Drugs Prescribed to the Young
09/15/2008- A study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry by author and research team leader Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, reveals that most of the 116 children – ages 8 to 19 - prescribed the new anti-psychotic drugs Eli Lilly´s Zyprexa or Johnson & Johnson´s (J&J) Risperdal failed to improve, and side effects were more common, than those given molindone, an older drug available as a generic. More>>>

State Sues Maker Of Risperdal: AG Claims Dangers Of Antipsychotic Hidden
09/15/2008- Risperdal is a wildly successful antipsychotic drug that has made millions for the Johnson and Johnson subsidiary that developed and marketed it. But the New Mexico Attorney General's Office contends that the manufacturer, Janssen, a division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceutical Inc., hid the dangers of the product and marketed it to populations for which it was never intended -- particularly the elderly and children. More>>>

Antipsychotic drugs double stroke risk: study
08/29/2008- People taking antipsychotic drugs are nearly twice as likely to have a stroke compared to those not on the treatment, British researchers reported on Friday. More>>>

Multiple drugs may not help schizophrenics - study
02/01/2006 - Schizophrenics who took two antipsychotic drugs showed no more improvement than those on a single drug, raising doubts about the benefit of using multiple medicines to treat the disease, a study said on Wednesday. More ::

FDA Calls for Warning on Antipsychotic Drugs
04/11/2005 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered new warnings on antipsychotic drugs, alerting physicians to a higher death rate when the medicines are prescribed for atypical use of treating dementia in elderly patients. More ::

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