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Volume 43, Issue 16, Page 8 (15 August 2008)


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Panels Reject Suicidality Boxed Warning for AEDs

ELIZABETH MECHCATIE (Senior Writer)

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.

PII: S0029-7437(08)70524-X

doi:10.1016/S0029-7437(08)70524-X


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