EXPLAINERAbilify MyCite embeds a sensor in an antipsychotic tablet to log each dose to an app. Nearly a decade on, its own FDA label still says it has not been shown to improve whether patients take their medicine.
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THE DRUG DOCKETCobenfy, approved in the US in September 2024, cut symptom scores more than placebo in two five-week trials — without the weight gain and movement effects of older drugs, but with cholinergic side effects.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA matched cohort of 173,910 people with dementia in England tied the drugs to raised risks of pneumonia, stroke, clots, heart attack, fracture and kidney injury — highest just after starting.
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WHAT THE STUDY ACTUALLY SAYSA within-individual analysis of 505,474 people in Finland and Sweden found lower psychiatric hospitalisation on clozapine in every disorder studied except borderline personality disorder, with no excess mortality signal.
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ANALYSISA 22-year US analysis links hotter months to more overdose deaths. A British Columbia case-control study finds antipsychotic dispensing associated with dying in the 2021 heat dome.
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