Schizophrenia News

2009;34 :HS-2-HS-9. Patients with mental illness constitute a population that can be challenging for any health care provider, but they offer great opportunities for a pharmacist to make a meaningful contribution.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved top-selling Abilify as a treatment for autism-related irritability in children from the ages of 6 to 17, drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved Geodon as a part of a combination maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder in adults.

Washington, Nov 19 : Scientists have found that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains.

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains.

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains.

It was a quick rise to the $2.40 level for shares of Titan Pharmaceuticals , as it finally looks like the stock is starting to trade towards its potential.

Protein kinase C interacting protein is a small protein belonging to the histidine triad family proteins.

Report author Professor Sube Banerjee says the drugs are over-prescribed by the National Health Service.

TONY EASTLEY: In Britain a review of the use of anti-psychotic drugs for dementia patients has concluded they are largely unnecessary and sometimes deadly.

Utah has agreed to a $24 million settlement with Eli Lilly & Co. over claims the drugmaker engaged in off-label marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said today.

On display in a museum in Heidelberg is a curious jacket created by a patient who spent her adult life locked up inside a mental asylum in the late 1800s.

Basel, 10 November, 2009 - Roche today reports results from a 320 patient phase II proof-of-concept study with ita s investigational glycine transporter-1 inhibitor RG1678.

Graduating from high school, attending college, finding a job that is satisfying, building lasting relationships - these are goals that most of us expect to meet.

Main Category: Schizophrenia Also Included In: Mental Health ; Psychology / Psychiatry Article Date: 08 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Internationally renowned experts in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, researchers and clinicians, patients and their families and friends will gather in Pittsburgh ...

Schizophrenia can be a sad and frightening mental illness. It can rob you of your energy and enjoyment in life and make it hard to have a job or long-term relationship.

South Carolina, trying to curb abuse of narcotics and save money, is requiring Medicaid patients suspected of doctor-hopping for drugs to choose one pharmacy for all of their prescriptions.

THREE years ago, when an Ulu Pandan resident approached People's Action Party activist Tin Pei Ling claiming to be Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's daughter, she knew something was amiss.

The British Journal of Psychiatry 195: S29-S36. doi: 10.1192/bjp.195.52.s29 © 2009 The Royal College of Psychiatrists REVIEW ARTICLES Second-generation antipsychotic long-acting injections: systematic review W. Wolfgang Fleischhacker, Professor of Psychiatry Medical University Innsbruck, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Anichstrasse ...

Drugs called atypical antipsychotics caused kids to gain an average of 10 to 19 pounds in the first few months.