CHICAGO (Reuters) - The narcolepsy drug Provigil can alleviate severe cancer-related fatigue, according to new research presented on Saturday at a meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology ...

CHICAGO, March 17 (Reuters) - Provigil, a narcolepsy drug increasingly used by healthy people to boost brain performance, may be addictive in vulnerable people and should be monitored, U.S. drug abuse ...

If ever there was a safe recreational drug, modafinil seemed to be it. The greatest little pick-me-up since the cup of joe — or so its enthusiasts said — the antinarcolepsy medication has helped ...

SAN DIEGO — Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the wakefulness-promoting drug modafinil (Provigil), and a combination of both treatments all reduce fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) — ...

Modafinil, originally developed in France in the 1970s, was approved for the treatment of severe sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.

After Apotex was thwarted in its plans to introduce a generic version of Provigil, it hit back with an attack on Cephalon's patent for the drug. A Philadelphia judge has sided with Apotex, ruling that ...

It's both appealing and disturbing to think that taking a pill could boost someone's brainpower to make them "smarter." Films like "Limitless" and "Lucy" create fantasies of cognition-enhancing drugs ...