Older schizophrenia drug safer than more widely prescribed ones, study says

Schizophrenics taking the first -- and cheapest -- of a new generation of antipsychotic medications, clozapine, were less likely to suffer premature death than patients taking the newer, costlier and more widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs Seroquel, Risperdal and Zyprexa, says a study published in the British medical journal Lancet.

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