Although many physicians rely on intramuscular injections of antipsychotic drugs to treat patients who need emergency treatment for psychotic agitation, new research has found that the oral ...

In addition, the mean duration of a hospital stay for patients treated with risperidone long acting injection was reduced by 35 per cent, from 85.4 days to 55.4 days (p=0.008) **.

Treatment interruptions among patients randomly assigned to long-acting injectable risperidone were addressed by restarting the intramuscular medication and providing oral medication for 3 weeks ...

When teenage Eddie Bible looked in the mirror, he didn’t see a boy. It was too difficult for him to look past the large breasts on his chest. “I had bigger boobs than the girls in (high ...

Thousands of men and their families across the United States began filing lawsuits because of alleged harm caused by Risperdal. According to the plaintiffs, they received no adequate warning that ...

Alex Gorsky, J&J’s chief executive officer, once ran the unit responsible for making and selling Risperdal and has intimate knowledge of the company’s illegal marketing efforts ...

I n a blow to Johnson & Johnson, the company was ordered last Friday to pay $70 million to a male Tennessee teenager who claimed its Risperdal antipsychotic pill caused him to grow enlarged ...

Concerns about side effects of the potent antipsychotic Risperdal in kids are one reason for the intense interest in Johnson & Johnson's funding of an academic institute that aimed to support use ...

Records from the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas reveal more than 3,000 new Risperdal lawsuits were filed in the first three months of 2017, driving up the total number of filings in ...

The patent protecting Johnson & Johnson's blockbuster Risperdal expired yesterday, and today the FDA said it granted approval to Teva Pharmaceuticals to market the first generic version. The ...