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Article: Warning label for antiepileptic drugs nixed.(News)
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- Pediatric News
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- August 1, 2008
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BELTSVILLE, MD. -- A boxed warning about an increased suicidality risk with the use of antiepileptic drugs should not be added to the labels of drugs in this class, but patients prescribed these drugs should receive information about this risk with every prescription, according to the majority of two federal advisory panels.
At a joint meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs and Psychopharmacologic Drugs advisory committees, the panel members agreed with the evidence indicating an increased suicidality risk and that this information needed to be communicated to physicians and patients, but they voted 14-4 with 3 ...