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FDA Probing Possible Link Between Asthma Drug and Suicide Risk

Date:3/27/2008

ing evaluations.

Experts pointed out that, in the meantime, asthma sufferers need to determine with their doctors whether Singulair is the best choice of treatment for them.

"[Patients need] to define what they're taking it for," said Dr. David Weldon, director of the Allergy and Pulmonary Lab Services at Scott & White in College Station, Texas. "In some instances, patients may be prescribed Singulair by itself for management of their asthma, and the expert panel guidelines recommend inhaled steroids as the drug of choice for management of asthma as the first line. So if they're still having problems with asthma, they should check with their prescribing physician regarding this."

Weldon added that he has not seen any increase in psychiatric problems with the drug, but that some patients had complained of nightmares after starting on Singulair.

The drug, a leukotriene receptor antagonist that targets part of the body's inflammatory process, is prescribed to treat asthma and the symptoms of allergic rhinitis, as well as to prevent exercise-induced asthma.

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SOURCES: David Weldon, M.D., assistant professor, internal medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and director, Allergy and Pulmonary Lab Services, Scott & White, College Station; March 27, 2008, statement, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Bloomberg News; Associated Press

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