Is It Bipolar Disorder or Depression? Learn the Signs Nov 6, 2009
Many of the treatments for bipolar disorder include antiseizure and mood stabilizing medications such as Depakote and Tegretol, as will as major tranquilizers such as Seroquel, Zyprexa and Abilify. Major tranquilizers tend to create a ceiling so that you don t get too high, he said. (Fox News)
Kids gain weight on certain meds Oct 30, 2009
7 pounds, weight gain was lowest with aripiprazole (Abilify) ... The study by Correll and his colleagues wasn't funded by the pharmaceutical industry, but he and his coauthors report consulting for many drug companies, including the makers of the drugs they looked at in the current study--AstraZeneca (Seroquel), Bristol-Myers Squibb (Abilify), Eli Lilly (Zyprexa), and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen (Risperdal). (CNN)
Antipsychotics Cause Rapid Weight Gain in Youth Oct 29, 2009
The study looked at four of the most common antipsychotic drugs used in children -- Johnson on's Risperdal or risperidone, Eli Lilly's Zyprexa or olanzapine, Bristol-Myers Squibb's Abilify or aripiprazole and AstraZeneca's Seroquel or quetiapine ... 5 kg) and those on Abilify gained 9 ... Abilify, a drug that is usually not linked with weight gain in adults, did cause children to gain weight, but did not raise cholesterol or blood sugar levels. (Newsmax)
Alarming weight gain seen in kids on psych drugs Oct 29, 2009
The drugs are Abilify, Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa. Of the four, Seroquel and Zyprexa are not yet approved for children, and they had the worst effects on weight and cholesterol. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Antipsychotic Drugs Spur Dramatic Weight Gain in Kids Oct 28, 2009
The study focused on four antipsychotics commonly prescribed to children: aripiprazole (Abilify), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel) and risperidone (Risperdal) ... 7 pounds on Abilify, while the control group gained less than half a pound ... Abilify, however, appeared "metabolically neutral," Correll said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
For drugmakers, higher profits but muted sales Oct 23, 2009
Abilify, Orencia for rheumatoid arthritis, leukemia drug Sprycel and hepatitis B drug Baraclude all had double-digit sales increases. Blood thinner Plavix, the world s number two drug, had sales of $1. (Boston Globe)
Bristol-Myers Reduces by 25% Sales Force for Antipsychotic Drug Abilify Oct 16, 2009
Bristol-Myers Cuts 25% of Mood-Stabilizer Abilifys Sales Team - Bloomberg ... Bristol-Myers Cuts 25% of Mood-Stabilizer Abilifys Sales Team ... Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- cut the sales force for its second best-selling drug, the antipsychotic Abilify, six months after extending its contract to market the product with Tokyo-based. (Bloomberg -- US)
• Asking about atypicals Sep 13, 2009
3 million alone for Abilify. One estimate from Idaho State University said pediatric use of all atypicals through Medicaid tripled in the last decade. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Dainippon to buy U.S. drug firm Sepracor for $2.6 billion Sep 4, 2009
Other competitors include Johnson on's (JNJ.N) Risperdal and Bristol-Myers Squibb's (BMY.N) Abilify. Lurasidone belongs to a new generation of schizophrenia drugs known as atypical antipsychotics. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
'08 murder suspect found unfit for trial Sep 3, 2009
Taniguchi said staff at the hospital want permission to administer the antipsychotic medication Abilify because "when Mr. Higa becomes angry he engages in assaultive behavior" and is a danger to himself and others. The last such episode was July 23 when Higa became angry because "one of the other patients asked him to move" from where he was sitting in an area called the "home room," Taniguchi said. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Schering-Plough gets approval for Saphris Aug 15, 2009
It will compete with several blockbusters, including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s Abilify, Pfizer Inc.'s Geodon, Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal and Eli Lilly & Co.'s Zyprexa. These drugs are in a newer category of medicines called atypical antipsychotics that generally are much more expensive than older drugs and have been widely touted as more effective and safer. (NJ.com -- News)
Protesters Trash Health Care Reform Aug 4, 2009
Cialis, Abilify, Nicoderm CQ, Vesicare, Mens One-a-day vitamins, Geigco Celebrex,and Tylenol all within fifteen minutes. Does anyone think that the pharmcutical companies don't have a LOT of money to spend. (CBS News)
Bristol-Myers Q2 Profit Up 29% on Higher Sales Jul 24, 2009
Abilify, an antipsychotic treatment, saw sales climb 22. The product has quickly become Bristol's No. 2 seller and is crucial to its plan to reduce its dependence on Plavix. (SmartMoney)
Bristol Myers Says to Buy Medarex for $2.1B Jul 23, 2009
Bristol-Myers, the world's No. 15 drugmaker by sales, is the maker of blood thinner Plavix, and the psychiatric drug Abilify. But the company is facing new competition for both of those blockbusters drugs and could see its revenue from them erode. (ABC News -- Wire)
Alleged Kidnapper Shenkman Makes Brief Court Appearance In Hartford Jul 15, 2009
His lawyer, Hugh Keefe, told the judge that he was having trouble communicating with Shenkman, who until his arrest had been taking anti-depressant medications Zoloft and Abilify and Adderall for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Keefe urged the judge to order state correction department officials to have a psychiatrist examine Shenkman and administer appropriate medications. (FOX61, CT)
Hostage Suspect in Hartford Court. Jul 15, 2009
Medication including adderoll-- frequently prescribed for a-d-h-d and hard to treat depression, as well as anti depressents zoloft and abilify. Keefe asked the court to order a medical examination. (FOX61, CT)
Flawed system frees unstable mental patients Jun 28, 2009
When a nurse tried to hand Na Yong a small supply of the antipsychotic drug Abilify, she yelled, I m not taking that (expletive) medication. Chris says he begged the nurse to keep her in the hospital. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
FDA panel OKs 3 psychiatric drugs for kids Jun 16, 2009
Currently, only Bristol-Myers Squibb's Abilify and Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal are approved for those uses. Abilify was the second best-selling anti-psychotic drug in the U.S. last year with sales of $3 billion. (MSNBC -- Health)
Psychiatric Drugs For Kids Scrutinized Jun 6, 2009
Currently only two drugs are cleared for those uses: Johnson on's Risperdal and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Abilify. "Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are serious illnesses in pediatric patients and represent substantial burden for both patients and their families," Laughren said. (CBS News)
Psychiatric drugs may help kids, with risks Jun 6, 2009
Currently only two drugs are cleared for those uses: Bristol-Myers Squibb's Abilify and Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal. Abilify was the second best-selling anti-psychotic drug in the U.S. last year with sales of $3 billion. (MSNBC -- Health)
Pfizer and Bristol beat forecasts, but sales disappoint Apr 29, 2009
44 billion, while schizophrenia treatment Abilify soared 30 percent to 589 million. But Erbitux revenue fell 12 percent to 164 million, hurt by confusion over whether patients should first take a genetic test to better predict whether the medicine would be effective. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Bristol-Myers extends contract with Japan's Otsuka Apr 7, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) US pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb announced Monday an extension of its agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceutical of Japan in order to maintain marketing rights for the anti-depression drug Abilify ... Sales of Abilify in the United States generated 2. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Bristol-Myers, Japanese Drugmaker Expand Deal Apr 7, 2009
Bristol-Myers, Japanese drugmaker Otsuka extend partnership on Abilify, add 2 cancer drugs ... New York-based Bristol-Myers and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. are prolonging until 2015 a deal to share revenue and marketing costs for the blockbuster psychiatric drug Abilify, which Otsuka discovered ... Otsuka and Bristol-Myers have shared the marketing of Abilify since 1999. (ABC News -- Wire)
How can I find an antidepressant that works? Feb 25, 2009
Examples of these types of medications include lithium, Depakote, Tegretol and many of the newer "second-generation" antipsychotics such as Zyprexa, Risperdal, Seroquel, Abilify and Geodon. You would have to get a full examination to determine whether you are better thought of as having bipolar disorder, but even if you've only had depressions, increasing evidence suggests that the second generation antipsychotics also work as antidepressants (Seroquel is close to getting FDA approval as an... (CNN -- Health)
Most Newer Antipsychotics No Better Than Older Ones, Just Different Feb 7, 2009
But, other second generation drugs, such as aripiprazole (Abilify), quetiapine (Seroquel), sertindole (Serdolect), ziprasidone (Geodon) and zotepine (Nipolept), were no more effective than first-generation drugs, the researchers reported. And, only aripiprazole and ziprasidone among the second-generation drugs did not induce more weight gain than the first-generation drug haloperidol (Haldol), the study found. (MEDLINEplus)
