FDA Told to Skip ‘Black Box’ on Epilepsy Drugs and Suicide

Until yesterday, the FDA had been rolling steadily toward slapping a black-box warning on epilepsy drugs because they may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
But a committee of outside experts convened by the FDA thinks that’s a bad idea. The panel voted 14-4 against the black-box warning yesterday, with three abstentions, the WSJ [...]