{"id":351,"date":"2010-10-31T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T17:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:07","slug":"more-short-news-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/more-short-news-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Short News Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 29, 2009 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d First-time, second-generation antipsychotic use in  children and adolescents is associated with rapid and significant weight gain as  well as varied adverse metabolic changes, new research shows. &#8220;These medications  are not benign and can have side effects that can have potential long-term  complications that are associated with endocrine and cardiovascular illness,&#8221;  said principal investigator Christoph U. Correll, MD.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/711526\">http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/711526<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>November 13, 2009\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d More research appears to confirm recent results of a  large, prospective cohort study that the use of atypical antipsychotics (AAPs)  increases the risk of significant weight gain and varied metabolic changes in  children and adolescents with mental illness and behavioral disturbances.  According to Dr. Panagiotopoulos, a growing body of evidence in adults  demonstrating that AAPs cause significant weight gain, hyperlipidemia, and  insulin resistance has raised concerns among the medical community in general,  and the psychiatric community in particular, about whether these drugs may  increase the risk of premature cardiovascular disease in children and  adolescents. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/712079\">http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/712079<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>February 24, 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A significant proportion of children younger than 18  years in at least 1 state Medicaid population received a second-generation  antipsychotic for conditions that have no published evidence supporting their  use. &#8220;Clearly, behavioural problems, including oppositional and conduct  disorders and hyperkinetic-hyperactivity symptoms, were frequently seen among  the children treated with second-generation antipsychotics,&#8221; the investigators  write. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/717544\">http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/717544<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>October 27, 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay an eye-popping $750  million and will plead guilty to a criminal charge to settle a U.S. government  investigation of manufacturing deficiencies at a former plant in Puerto Rico.  The investigation largely concerned the manufacture of defective pills including  the Paxil antidepressant at Glaxo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico, between 2001  and 2005. U.S. authorities found that some tablets could split apart or had  inappropriate amounts of active ingredient, posing safety risks.\u00c2\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/10\/27\/gsk-to-pay-750m-to-settle-charges-over-adulterated-drugs\/?blog_id=14&amp;post_id=35066\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/10\/27\/gsk-to-pay-750m-to-settle-charges-over-adulterated-drugs\/?blog_id=14&amp;post_id=35066<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>October 28, 2010 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Anna Nicole Smith&#8217;s psychiatrist was convicted of  conspiring to fake names on prescriptions. Psychiatrist Dr. Khristine Eroshevich  was convicted of conspiring with Howard K. Stern\u00c2\u00a0to fraudulently prescribe  Vicodin.\u00c2\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/10\/28\/3140863\/jury-acquits-smiths-doctor-in.html\">http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/10\/28\/3140863\/jury-acquits-smiths-doctor-in.html<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Nicole Smith&#8217;s psychiatrist was convicted of conspiring to fake names on prescriptions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/31\/more-short-news-takes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-5F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}