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FDA: Boxed Warning on Serious Mental Health Events to be Required for Chantix and Zyban
Dec 31 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is requiring manufacturers to put a Boxed Warning on the prescribing information for the smoking cessation drugs Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (buproprion). The warning will highlight... Read more »

Depression Gene May Not Add to Risk After All
Jul 1 - Stressful life events are strongly associated with a person's risk for major depression, but a certain gene variation long thought to increase risk in conjunction with stressful life events actually may have no effect, according to researchers fun... Read more »

FDA Approves Saphris to Treat Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Jun 17 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Saphris tablets (asenapine) to treat adults with schizophrenia, a chronic, severe and disabling brain disorder, and to treat bipolar I disorder in adults, a serious psychiatric disorder that cause... Read more »

FDA: Boxed Warning on Serious Mental Health Events to be Required for Chantix and Zyban
Sep 16 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is requiring manufacturers to put a Boxed Warning on the prescribing information for the smoking cessation drugs Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (buproprion). The warning will highlight... Read more »

Schizophrenia Related to Flow of Potassium Into Cells
Jul 1 - A study on schizophrenia has implicated machinery that maintains the flow of potassium in cells and revealed a potential molecular target for new treatments. Expression of a previously unknown form of a key such potassium channel was found to be 2... Read more »

FDA Approves Humanitarian Device Exemption for Deep Brain Stimulator for Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
May 6 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a humanitarian device exemption for the first implantable device that delivers intermittent electrical therapy deep within the brain to suppress the symptoms associated with severe obsessive-com... Read more »


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