Lithium carbonate and valproate sodium are each recommended as monotherapy for preventing relapses in patients with bipolar disorder and are sometimes used in combination. However, combination therapy ...

Families of children harmed by a drug that caused up to 20,000 babies to be born with disabilities have welcomed calls for compensation after their plight was compared to the thalidomide scandal. The ...

Other effective medicines are available for epilepsy and bipolar disorder and valproate should only be used if these don’t work or aren’t suitable for an individual patient. Image Credit: Medicines ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has instructed healthcare organisations to immediately institute a plan for implementing the first phase of new regulatory measures to ...

When lithium or valproate aren't enough, ‘add-on’ treatments like atypical antipsychotics can help. Discover 7 options to discuss with your doctor.

The drug rapamycin could prevent the epilepsy medication sodium valproate from causing developmental problems during pregnancy. Sodium valproate is used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued an update on PIP (Personal Independence Payment). The news was released in a statement to MPs in Parliament about a treatment that has led to birth ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Absolute 10-year CKD risks were similar in both the lithium and valproate groups. Of more than 35,000 routine ...

A recent review published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry explores the calcium-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase-2 (CaMKK2) signaling pathway as a contributor to bipolar disorder ...