Lilly lists its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa among those that will lose their patents this year.

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It found that antipsychotic drug dispensing in older people more than doubled when they entered care.

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Another cause for concern is Seroquel (No. 11), the most popular antipsychotic drug.

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It delivers the antipsychotic drug loxapine through inhalation, providing fast relief for schizophrenia and bipolar patients in a state of agitation.

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Abilify, from Otsuka and Bristol-Myers Squibb, passed Seroquel from Astra as the top-selling antipsychotic drug for disease like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

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The drug is an inhaled version of antipsychotic drug loxapine aimed at treating the agitation resulting from schizophrenia and bipolar mania within 10 minutes.

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She says that when she took one 9-year-old with severe behavior problems off Risperdal because of weight gain, and switched the child to another antipsychotic drug, the child was soon kicked out of school.

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Controversies over the alleged overpromotion of antipsychotic Risperdal and heart drug Natrecor should probably count as marks against Weldon, too.

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One surprise for many was that the drug perphenazine, an antipsychotic that was discovered in the 1950s and is now a dirt-cheap generic, did as well as the other drugs.

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For many classes of drugs among them statins, anti-hypertensives, analgesics and antipsychotic medicines the selection of the appropriate drug among many possibilities requires a delicate balancing of effectiveness and acceptable side effects in each patient.

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