New safety study links sedative use to increased stroke risk. A large UK study involving more than 165,000 people with dementia has found that the drug risperidone increases the risk of stroke in all ...

A judge on Friday took an axe to a legal award against Johnson & Johnson — chopping the settlement from $8 billion to $6.8 million — in the case of a man who said the company failed to warn consumers ...

Risperidone is an antipsychotic with known side effects that clinicians must balance against its benefits for a subset of autistic people. Although it can, for some autistic people, help reduce ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2009 – New data demonstrate that maintenance therapy with RISPERDAL® CONSTA® (risperidone) Long-Acting Treatment (RLAT) significantly delayed the time to relapse compared to ...

The antipsychotic drug Risperdal may ease depression in patients who don't respond to antidepressants, a new study shows. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included about 274 ...

21 September 2003 – Prague – When used alone, RISPERDAL® (risperidone) significantly improves symptoms of acute mania in persons with bipolar disorder as early as one week after treatment begins, ...

Titusville, NJ (June 17, 2011) - Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is initiating a voluntary recall of one lot of RISPERDAL® (risperidone) 3mg Tablets, marketed by Janssen Division of ...

TITUSVILLE, N.J., May 24 /PRNewswire/ --New data on INVEGA® SUSTENNA® (paliperidone palmitate), a long-acting injectable medicine for schizophrenia, and new data on RISPERDAL® CONSTA® (risperidone ...