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 ...

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(HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has removed one hurdle faced by patients with schizophrenia when filling prescriptions for the antipsychotic medication clozapine.

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 ...

Source: Bethany Yeiser I have taken clozapine successfully for 17 years. One of my biggest fears in life is reduced access to this life-saving medication. Different people need different ...

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 ...

Following the advice of a nearly unanimous joint FDA advisory committee, the agency decided that clozapine's REMS program is no longer necessary to ensure that the benefits of the drug outweigh ...