Boxed Mortality Warning Added to Older Antipsychotics Given to Elderly Demented

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Boxed Mortality Warning Added to Older Antipsychotics Given to Elderly

Demented (with audio)

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Old-line neuroleptic drugs have been given a boxed

warning on an increased risk of death when used off-label in elderly

patients with dementia, the FDA announced today. full story

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/AlzheimersDisease/tb/9845

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