Substance Use in Children and Adolescents

Screening and diagnosis of children and adults

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children

Hypopituitarism in Children Resulting in Short Stature

Somatropin Hgh rDNA Pfizer

What is GENOTROPIN? GENOTROPIN (somatropin [rDNA origin] for injection) is a growth hormone treatment. It is an exact copy of the natural growth hormone that our bodies make. The main difference i...

Study: Ritalin treats apathy in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Leslye Nathe did not realize the profound effect that Ritalin was having on her mother's Alzheimer's disease until a doctor stopped the prescription.

Is Your School Cracking Down on Ritalin and Adderall?

The school year may be winding down for university students, but with final exams still looming, and summer sessions right behind, it’s safe to say that more than a few people will be looking for a...

Animal study: long-term ritalin doesn't impact growth

(HealthDay) -- Chronic use of methylphenidate (Ritalin) in young monkeys has no significant effect on growth or the dopamine system, or the likelihood of becoming addicted to cocaine, according to a s...

Enhancing social conformity with Ritalin

Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today , talking about a study using Ritalin to enhance...social conformity. It looks like Ritalin exposure may enhance the salience (or importance) of other people's o...

The Molecule In Ritalin Keeps Generating Revenue

This morning, Pfizer announced that it will spend as much as $700 million (including future milestone payments) to buy NextWave Pharmaceuticals, the maker of a long-acting liquid formulation of methyl...

Children with ADHD say stimulant drugs help them

LONDON (Reuters) - Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who take stimulants such as Ritalin tend to feel the drugs help them control their behavior and do not turn them into "...

ADHD drugs do not raise risk of serious heart conditions in children, study shows

(Medical Xpress)—Children taking central nervous system stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin do not face an increased risk of serious heart conditions during treatment, according to a new Univers...

Should Ritalin Be Distributed To Everyone Taking the SATs?

The use of uppers to help study for exams an uncondoned practice that dates back decades came under renewed scrutiny with a recent front-page story in the New York Times that highlighted the prev...

HPLC enantioseparation of α,α-diphenyl-2-pyrrolidinemethanol and methylphenidate using a chiral fluorescent derivatization reagent and its application to the analysis of rat plasma.

Enantioseparation of α,α-diphenyl-2-pyrrolidinemethanol (D2PM) and methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin(®)) using (R)-(-)-4-(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonyl)-7-(3-isothiocyanatopyrrolidin-1-yl)-2,1,3-benzoxadia...

Solution- and Solid-State Conformations of C(α)-Alkyl Analogues of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) Salts: Avoidance of gauche(+)gauche(-) Interactions.

Alkyl analogues of methylphenidate (Ritalin) salts are slow onset, long duration dopamine reuptake inhibitors with a potential use as a cocaine abuse pharmacotherapy. X-ray crystallographic studies an...

Exploring Language Profiles for Children With ADHD and Children With Asperger Syndrome.

Objective: The aims of the present study was to investigate communication impairments in a Norwegian sample of children with ADHD and children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and to explore whether childr...

Pandemic flu: a comparative evaluation of clinical, laboratory, and radiographic findings in HIV-positive and negative children.

Eleven HIV-infected and 30 otherwise healthy children hospitalized for H1N1 influenza were studied. Leukopenia was recorded in 64% of HIV-infected and in 20% of healthy children (P = 0.01). Chest radi...

Severe episodic viral wheeze in preschool children: High risk of asthma at age 5-10 years.

In population studies, most children with episodic viral wheeze (EVW) become symptom free by 6 years. We studied the outcome of children with severe EVW, treated and followed up in hospital. We follo...