There is a rising burden of long-term antipsychotic prescription in general practice, however, roughly half of patients do not receive annual psychiatric review or are they captured on disease ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug reviewers recommended that regulators further study the effects in children of a group of medicines known as atypical antipsychotics, a report released on Friday said.

Antipsychotic use in older adults with dementia is associated with a significant increased risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, fracture, acute kidney injury, and a range ...

Overuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes remains a hot-button issue for regulators and consumer advocacy groups. Now, one multistate nursing home chain is sharing how it has dramatically reduced the ...

Federal regulators are reportedly reexamining a policy discouraging use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes unless patients have one of three specific conditions. Citing an email from the ...

No individual antipsychotic was associated with better cognitive outcomes than placebo in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), according to a systematic review and network ...

First-generation antipsychotics, including haloperidol and chlorpromazine, raise the risk of tardive dyskinesia. Second-generation options like risperidone and quetiapine also carry a risk. Tardive ...