Shire to buy Germany's Jerini for 349 million euros
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Shire Ltd., the U.K.'s third-biggest drugmaker, agreed to pay 349 million euros ($554 million) in cash for Germany's Jerini AG to add a treatment for a sometimes fatal tissue swelling.Investors in Jerini will get 6...
Johnson & Johnson Grows Up a Little
Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) pill, Concerta, is growing up.On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug for adults.
Concerta, a long-acting version of Novartis'...
How Ritalin Works In Brain To Boost Cognition, Focus Attention
Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as 'cognition enhancers' has recently surged among the healthy, as well.What's now...
Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention
Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as 'cognition enhancers' has recently surged among the healthy, as well.What's now...
Study Uncovers How Ritalin Works in Brain to Boost Cognition, Focus Attention
Newswise - Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as 'cognition enhancers' has recently surged among the healthy, as well.What...
Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention
MADISON - Stimulant medications such as Ritalin have been prescribed for decades to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and their popularity as 'cognition enhancers' has recently surged among the healthy, as well.What's...
A Developmental Approach
Consultant for Pediatricians.5 No.
8 Special Issue: Focus on ADHD Treatment of ADHD: Dr Robb is associate professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.
She is also medical...
The Squeeze on Drug-Maker Shire (Today From Barron's)
HEALTH-CARE INVESTORS ARE obsessed with shire's 'post-patent' period.This non-Gregorian Calendar scheme measures the British drug maker by the day that Adderall XR goes off patent: April 1, 2009.
The 'Before/After XR' reckoning is...
Research and Markets: J&Js Concertas Strong Uptake is Due to Its First-to-Market Status as a Once-Daily ADHD T
- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a549d9/commercial_and_pip) has announced the addition of the 'Commercial And Pipeline Insight: ADHD - Immature Adult Market Continues To Offer Greatest Commercial Potential'...
Research and Markets: J&Js Concertas Strong Uptake is Due to Its First-to-Market Status as a Once-Daily ADHD T
DUBLIN, Ireland - (Business Wire) Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a549d9/commercial_and_pip) has announced the addition of the 'Commercial And Pipeline Insight: ADHD - Immature Adult Market Continues To Offer...
Research and Markets: J&Js Concertas Strong Uptake is Due to Its First-to-Market Status as a Once-Daily ADHD T
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a549d9/commercial_and_pip) has announced the addition of the 'Commercial And Pipeline Insight: ADHD - Immature Adult Market Continues To Offer...
Chantix top-searched Rx brand online
Pfizer's smoking cessation treatment Chantix was the top-searched prescription brand online in February, generating more than 500,000 search queries, according to internet measurement firm comScore.Shire's Adderall for ADHD and...
Experts Revisit Food Additives and ADHD
-- The notion that artificial colors and preservatives in foods may play a role in hyperactivity has been largely dismissed within conventional medicine, but there are signs that this is beginning to change.In a newly published editorial...
Ahead of the Bell: Barr Pharmaceuticals
NEW YORK (AP) - A Cowen & Co.analyst says Barr Pharmaceuticals is preparing to launch 'an exceedingly strong product cycle,' and he upgraded the stock to 'Outperform' from 'Neutral.' On Friday, Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
received...
ADHD Drugs: Heart Screen Recommended
-- Children and teens taking stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) should be screened for hidden heart problems, the American Heart Association now says.In an updated consensus statement released today, the...
Cognition-enhancing drugs common among academics
-0400 (Reuters Health) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A survey of individuals who read the journal Nature, a technical bioscience publication, reveals that roughly one in five use prescription drugs to improve their focus, concentration, or...