FDA Warns of Serious Skin Reaction with Antipsychotic Olanzapine (FREE)
By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
The atypical antipsychotic olanzapine (Zyprexa and others) can cause a serious skin reaction known as drug reaction … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - May 10, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA warns about rare but serious skin reactions with mental health drug olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zyprexa Zydis, Zyprexa Relprevv, and Symbyax)
[05-09-2016] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the antipsychotic drug olanzapine can cause a rare but serious skin reaction that can progress to affect other parts of the body. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - May 10, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
FDA Warns of Skin Reaction With Olanzapine
(MedPage Today) -- Zyprexa and Symbyax among products to get warning label (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - May 10, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Olanzapine Linked to Rare but Serious Skin Reaction, FDA WarnsOlanzapine Linked to Rare but Serious Skin Reaction, FDA Warns
The US Food and Drug Administration is warning that the antipsychotic olanzapine has been linked to a rare but potentially life-threatening skin condition. News Alerts (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - May 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Alert Source Type: news
Dying Matters Awareness Week
13 - 19 May 2018 is Dying Matters Awareness Week.Every year in May, Dying Matters and its coalition members host an Awareness Week, which gives an opportunity to place the importance of talking about dying, death and bereavement firmly on the national agenda. The theme for 2019 is, " Are we ready? "TheCochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Review Group produces reviews on palliative care for those with life-limiting disease or illness, and supportive care of patients and significant others living with serious illness. They have worked closely withHospice UK, a national charity for hospice care, and theDying Matters ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 9, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
A Major Advance Against Chemotherapy's Most Feared Side EffectA Major Advance Against Chemotherapy's Most Feared Side Effect
Dr Mark Kris discusses a study showing that olanzapine is safe and effective for chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis. Medscape Oncology (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 14, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Commentary Source Type: news
The Truth About Gay Men and Depression
It's time to reveal the truth and I'm just going to say it: gay men and depression coexist. Dark, unfathomable, or uneasy, it's just the truth. I realized I was depressed when I was 12 years old. My parents had divorced, I had trouble making friends at school and my mood felt as heavy as the fog that lays over the city of San Francisco where I grew up. I didn't want to get out of bed and life seemed entirely different than the happy childhood I once knew. Life before depression was idealistic. I enjoyed creative arts and running. I also had big dreams to become an actor in New York City. My friends knew me as the outgoin...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Acute poisoning with dapsone and olanzapine: severe methemoglobinemia and coma with a favourable outcome - Iliev YT, Zagorov MY, Grudeva-Popova JG.
Dapsone is a drug commonly used in the treatment of leprosy. In Europe it is rarely prescribed, mostly for the treatment of skin diseases such as dermatitis herpetiformis. Poisoning with dapsone is rare and reports of such cases are of interest for toxicol... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news
Improving symptoms and side effects in older patients with schizophrenia with decreasing dopamine D2/3 receptor occupancy following resperidone and olanzapine dose reduction
The use of lower doses of antipsychotics is recommended by experts in the treatment of older patients with schizophrenia, with the literature suggesting that older age is related to greater antipsychotic sensitivity.1 To date, three randomised controlled trials have examined the effects of olanzapine and risperidone dose reduction on clinical outcome in schizophrenia with inconsistent results.2–4 However, this topic has not been addressed specifically in older patients with schizophrenia, nor has the relationship between ...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zyprexa: Also a Pain Med?
(MedPage Today) -- Meta-analysis suggests analgesic effect for antipsychotic drug (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - February 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Adding an Antipsychotic Helps Treat PainAdding an Antipsychotic Helps Treat Pain
A literature review finds that the atypical antipsychotic olanzapine has the most evidence supporting its use in various pain syndromes. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - February 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Understanding & Giving Support to Someone with Schizophrenia
What comes to mind when the word schizophrenia is spoken? Likely images of a bedraggled man or woman, with wild hair and tattered clothing, chatting away with someone that you can’t see, as they amble down a city street. You might actually cross the street to avoid him or her, so as not to get caught up in their delusion.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) describes the condition as “characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and other symptoms that cause social or occupational dysfunction. For a diagnosis, symptoms must have been present for s...
Source: Psych Central - February 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Antipsychotics Atypical Antipsychotics Caregivers Disorders Family General Medications Psychology Psychotherapy Schizophrenia Treatment American Psychiatric Association Delusion Delusional disorder Diagnostic And Statistical Ma Source Type: news
Comunicado de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos: La FDA investiga dos muertes tras inyección con antipsicótico de larga duración Zyprexa Relprevv (pamoato de olanzapina)
El 18 de junio, 2013, La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés) está investigando la inexplicable muerte de dos pacientes que recibieron una inyección intramuscular del medicamento antipsicótico Zyprexa Relprevv (pamoato de olanzapina). (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - January 19, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Transforming Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Benefits and Challenges
Guest Editor(s) Robin Bogner and Ajaz Hussain Investigations of the effect of the lipid matrix on drug entrapment, in vitro release, and physical stability of olanzapine loaded solid lipid nanoparticles Author(s) K. Vivek Harivardhan Reddy Ramachandra S. R. Murthy (Source: AAPS Publications)
Source: AAPS Publications - August 19, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Schizophrenia Treatment
Table of Contents
Introduction
Psychotherapy
Medications
Coping Guidelines For The Family
Self-Help
Introduction
Schizophrenia usually first appears in a person during their late teens or throughout their twenties. It affects more men than women, and is considered a life-long condition which rarely is "cured," but rather treated. The primary treatment for schizophrenia and similar thought disorders is medication. Unfortunately, compliance with a medication regimen is often one of the largest problems associated with the ongoing treatment of schizophrenia. Because people who live with this disorder ...
Source: Psych Central - June 11, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Atypical Antipsychotics Disorders General Medications Schizophrenia Treatment how is schizophrenia treated medications for schizophrenia schizophrenia medications Schizophrenia Treatment Treatment For Schizophrenia Source Type: news
