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2009's Generic Drugs: Who's at Risk - Motley Fool
December 30, 2008, 12:55 pm

The patent cliff is coming up fast. While some companies won't feel the heat for a few more years -- Pfizer 's (NYSE: PFE ) top-selling compound Lipitor and Eli Lilly 's (NYSE: LLY ) Zyprexa both retain exclusivity until 2011 -- some of the ...

John Travolta's Son: Meds Ultimately Didn't Work - TMZ.com
January 5, 2009, 10:39 am

TMZ has learned more about the medical condition of John Travolta's son, Jett, and the medication that ultimately didn't work. We're now told the grand mal seizures Jett suffered were "frequent and extremely serious." Travolta's lawyers, Michael Ossi ...

FDA Adds Suicide Warning to Epilepsy Drugs - Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 31, 2008, 9:27 am

TUESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it was adding a label warning on heightened suicide risk for users of antiepileptic drugs. The move, which follows the advice last summer of an FDA ...

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Thu Sep 18

• Effect of levetiracetam on molecular regulation of...[Brain Res. 2007] - PubMed Result: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
• Neuropsycholog ical and psychiatric impact of add-o...[Epile psy Behav. 2006] - PubMed Result: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Wed Jun 4

• Keppra Information from Drugs.com: levetiracetam
• Levetiracetam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri Feb 15

• Levetiracetam - Yahoo! Health: Levetiracetam is used to control seizures. The exact way that it works is unknown.
• Levetiracetam for epilepsy - Yahoo! Health: Levetiracetam (Keppra) may be used to help control partial seizures in adults. It is used with, not instead...
• Levetiracetam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Side effects Side effects include: ataxia (sudden loss of balance); hair loss; pins and needles sensation in the extremities; psychiatric symptoms ranging from irritability to depression; and other common side effects like headache and nausea. Recent lit
• Patient Information Sheet: Levetiracetam (marketed as Keppra): Keppra is a medicine taken with other seizure medicines to treat: * partial seizures in adults and children 4 years of age and older with epilepsy. * myoclonic seizures in adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older with juvenile myoclonic
• MedlinePlus Drug Information: Levetiracetam: Levetiracetam is used in combination with other medications to treat certain types of seizures in people with epilepsy. Levetiracetam is in a class of medications called anticonvulsant s. It works by decreasing abnormal excitement in the brain.
• Anticonvulsant , Succinimide (Oral Route) - MayoClinic.com: Succinimide anticonvulsant s are used to control certain seizures in the treatment of epilepsy. These medicines act on the central nervous system (CNS) to reduce the number and severity of seizures.
• Epilepsy Treatment for Seizure Disorders: About Keppra® (levetiracetam ) - www.Keppra.com: Keppra is a medicine made specifically for epilepsy and treats over 80% of seizure types. It's taken by mouth and is used with other epilepsy medicines to treat: * primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures in adults and children 6 years of a

Fri Apr 20

• This Is MS - Desipramine (anti-depressa nt) as a Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis | Unbiased Multiple Sclerosis Research, News, and Community: ... inhibiting caspase 3 activation. Caspase 3 activation is ALSO stopped in its tracks by BDNF. Both levetiracetam and desipramine increase BDNF substant

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