For 35 years, the FDA has placed onerous restrictions on the only drug it has ever approved for treatment-resistant ...

Advocates and clinicians say that patients are still having trouble getting refills, even though the FDA has lifted REMS for ...

Patients will no longer need to provide blood test results before they can get clozapine prescriptions filled, according to ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy, periodic communication after suicide attempt, and pharmacologic treatments are important tools for veteran treatment.

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window Most physicians said the positives of clozapine's REMS outweighed its negatives. Most also said that mandatory blood ...

Clozapine, a medication approved by the FDA more than three decades ago, has been shown to be the most effective treatment for individuals with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Yet, due to ...

By Ellen Barry The Food and Drug Administration has taken a crucial step toward expanding access to the antipsychotic medication clozapine, the only drug approved for treatment-resistant ...

This led her to becoming involved with The Angry Moms, a grassroots effort advocating for the safe use of clozapine, an antipsychotic medication. (The Angry Moms has not received any donations ...

A third of people with schizophrenia have symptoms that will not sufficiently respond to two adequate trials of antipsychotic medications.1 For these people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, ...

A coroner has written to five national organisations after a man vomited to death while taking an anti-psychotic, warning ...

We tested the hypothesis that the combination of aripiprazole and clozapine would lead to an improvement in this patient group. Methods: Eleven patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia ...

Most physician prescribers were satisfied with the FDA's controversial risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program for clozapine, survey data showed. Among 196 doctors who prescribed ...