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By Kurt R. Karst – We recently reported on a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Actavis Elizabeth LLC (“Actavis”) against FDA in which Actavis requested the court to enter an injunction directing FDA to rescind the Agency’s grant of 5-year New Chemical Entity (“NCE”) exclusivity for the ADHD drug VYVANSE (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) Capsules. NCE exclusivity was created under Title I of the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Amendments.Actavis filed the lawsuit aft
Man, that series of depression posts back there was intense, huh? And Sci will admit that she's not done. I've still got to cover the BDNF theory, not the mention the coolness that is all the possibilities in Brodmann's area 25. But Sci is currently in the process of getting sick. While I attempt to preemptively strike this cold with copious amounts of sleep, zinc, and fluids, it's best to blog on a topic that I feel pretty comfortable blogging about. It also helps to blog whi
I saw Dr. Fix-Me-Upper yesterday. After confirming that I’m doing all the right things to try to cope with my attention deficit disorder (and still hitting a rock wall), he gave me a prescription for Vyvanse. If I’m counting correctly this will be the fifth medication I’ve tried for my ADD. I took my first pill a few minutes ago. Wish me luck that this is the one that finally works. Even if it isn’t, I’m going to scale that fucking rock wall . I know it will be worth it, because the view from
Four and a half months ago I was sitting in my truck in the parking lot at my office, hyperventilating, and sobbing in to my cell phone. Justis was on the verge of failing several more classes and I didn’t know what to do. He has never really been a big fan of school and his grades were just getting worse and worse. Over the years we tried everything. We tried positive reinforcement; paying for grades, taking him to dinner for good grades, giving him more computer time when assignments were turn