DEMENTIA
The FDA has determined new data provide evidence concluding the conventional antipsychotic agents share the increased risk of death in elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis that has been documented with the atypical antipsychotics.
The FDA has acted to require manufacturers of an older class of drugs known as conventional antipsychotics to add boxed warnings to their labeling about an increased risk of death associated with their off-label use to treat behavioral problems in older patients with dementia.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the United States, with more than 5 million patients living with the disease in 2007.
Dementia can devastate the lives of patients and their families.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly.