If FDA expands use of stay-awake drug Provigil, how will it affect the manufacturer?
>Today on the Public Radio International show, >Market Place, there is a story about the FDA >approving Provigil (a.k.a. Modafinil) being >approved for broader use as a legal stimulant. …and now it’s a buy: “LAPPIN: Well, I have always, I always have something going in the biotech area, and one of the companies I like there is Cephalon. The stock is actually down a few dollars for this year, and they have a drug called PROVIGIL, which was approved a year or more ago for narcoleptics, people that just can’t stay away. And just in the last 10 days, PROVIGIL has been given an expanded label so that it can be used by people who work night shifts and so forth. They’ve done studies that the Three Mile Island accident happened because people were exhausted. And you know the circadian rhythms or whatever they call them that want us to be up during the day and sleeping at night are disrupted for night shift workers.
