A small clinical trial comparing AstraZeneca’s Seroquel with Johnson & Johnson’s Risperdal has shown the two antipsychotics have equivalent efficacy but that Seroquel is better tolerated than its ...

Over the past decade, the Veterans Affairs Department spent $717 million for an anti-psychotic drug to treat post-traumatic stress disorder that a recent study shows is no more effective than a ...

WILMINGTON, Del., Monday May 23 2005 – AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) today announced results from a clinical study that examined the effectiveness of SEROQUEL and risperidone in improving cognitive function ...

Reducing the number of residents with dementia who are on antipsychotics starts with reassessment, experts advised at this week’s American College of Health Care Administrators convocation In Orlando.

Alderley Park, UK - June 23, 2004 - AstraZeneca announced important new data today from three separate studies presented this week at the 24th Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum ...

A widely used class of antipsychotic drugs that includes bestsellers Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel is just as likely -- perhaps even more likely -- to cause a fatal heart attack as older ...

WALTHAM, Mass., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Janssen's Risperdal ...

Pharmaceutical companies have recently paid out the largest legal settlements in U.S. history — including the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations — for illegally marketing ...

Widely prescribed anti-psychotic drugs do not help most Alzheimer’s patients with delusions and aggression and are not worth the risk of sudden death and other side effects, the first major study on ...

The combination of prescription drugs that Britney Spears' mother claims were ground up in the singer's food was a risky mix that could cause hysterical outbursts, agitation, creepy hallucinations, ...