Smith says there have been some preliminary results with antipsychotics, such as Zyprexa, Risperdal and Seroquel.
If doctors really like the new drug, it could conceivably cut into Risperdal's sales growth.
Abilify and Risperdal are approved for treating children with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Instead, regulators said that they would not approve Risperdal Consta given current data.
Next month, the agency will consider another hot-button topic: the overuse of antipsychotic drugs like Risperdal and Zyprexa in children.
Controversies over the alleged overpromotion of antipsychotic Risperdal and heart drug Natrecor should probably count as marks against Weldon, too.
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And from October 2001 to early 2003 he was the Janssen president, during which time he was responsible for selling Risperdal.
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Generic competition to Topamax and Risperdal cut into sales, but strong growth from inflammatory disease treatment Remicade helped moderate the damage.
Sheller explains that Risperdal stimulated the production of prolacting, which is a hormone released by the pituitary gland that stimulates breast development.
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After Quintn admitted to being suicidal, Dr. Anderson prescribed a week in a local psychiatric hospital, and a switch to Risperdal.
Risperdal, Zyprexa and AstraZeneca's Seroquel followed in the next seven years.
University of North Carolina psychiatrist Linmarie Sikich led a government study last year that showed that Risperdal or Zyprexa were no better than older medicines for schizophrenic kids.
Alkermes, which specializes in developing technologies that deliver drug chemicals to the body, figured out a way to turn the Risperdal pill into a shot, branded Risperdal Consta.
For Risperdal patient James Armstrong, 57, the improvement was dramatic.
The initial Risperdal labeling, he says, downplayed the risk of adverse events resulting from increased prolactin levels and failed to suggest that a test should be used as well.
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The success of several new drugs, including Invega Sustenna and Risperdal Consta, drugs that treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, contributed to a 7.5% increase in global pharmaceutical sales, the company said.
Risperdal, drug used to treat schizophrenia, seems to be holding its own against competition from Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) more expensive new drug, Geodon.
She says that when she took one 9-year-old with severe behavior problems off Risperdal because of weight gain, and switched the child to another antipsychotic drug, the child was soon kicked out of school.
When he had a patient who was breast-feeding, she supported his conclusion that it would be safer if the woman took the antipsychotic Risperdal instead of Lilly's Zyprexa because Risperdal had more safety data on that point.
Lieberman was the primary investigator for a government-funded clinical trial that showed there was little difference in how long patients stuck with the new class of antipsychotics, like Zyprexa and Risperdal, vs. the older, cheaper variety, such as Haldol.
Sales of Risperdal, a schizophrenia medicine, grew only 1% in the U.S., Weinstein says, slowed by competition from Abilify, a new antipsychotic made by Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ) with a very clean safety profile.
The plaintiff, 21-year-old Aaron Banks, alleged that he suffered psychological trauma after growing breasts while taking Risperdal between 1999 and 2004, starting when he was nine years old, says Sheller, who added that the antipsychotic was not approved for use in children in the US at the time.
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