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Certain antipsychotic drugs pose risk for elderly with dementia Brief Canadian Press story at PsycPORT - "Elderly patients with dementia should avoid taking certain antipsychotic medications because of an increased risk of death, says a warning issued by Health Canada. Recent studies of the drugs, known as second-generation, or atypical, antipsychotics, show that elderly patients with dementia prescribed the medications had a death rate 1.6 times higher than that of patients taking a placebo, or dummy pill. The studies examined risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and olanzapine (Zyprexa). There were no studies on clozapine (Clozaril) in older patients with dementia, but because Clozaril is from the same family of drugs, it is included in Wednesday's advisory."  
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