Arlington, VA - Among insured patients newly prescribed second-generation antipsychotics, monitoring of blood glucose and lipid levels falls far short of 2004 American Diabetes Association (ADA) ...

May 23, 2007 (San Diego) -- A large, single-center study found that about 70% of patients who were prescribed atypical antipsychotics by mental-healthcare practitioners were monitored for most ...

The rapid growth of antipsychotic medication use among publicly insured children in the early and mid-2000s spurred new state efforts to monitor and improve prescription behavior. A starting point for ...

A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, ...

The use of the antipsychotic drugs quetiapine and haloperidol is associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) caused by drug-induced QT prolongation, ...

Schizophrenia is a chronic, often debilitating illness that is associated with progressive cognitive and functional decline, and which requires lifelong pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments ...

Credit: Thinkstock. Antipsychotics used to treat disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychoses mainly involve D2 receptor antagonism and some newer agents target D4 antagonism ...

Patients on antipsychotics need to be regularly monitored for signs of tardive dyskinesia, a medication-induced movement disorder diagnosed when the involuntary movements persist for at least a month ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Physicians should monitor cardiometabolic markers among patients on antipsychotics, according to results of a ...

Better monitoring of antipsychotic drugs given to children in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) is called for in a new audit which found no evidence of over-prescribing of ...