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Parents survey: Perceptions of the duration of their child's ADHD medication

Shire plc yesterday announced results of a national survey where 60 percent of 121 mothers reported their 6- to 12-year-old child's once-daily ADHD medication stopped working before 6 p.m. The survey findings report the perceptions of 500 parents of children with ADHD regarding the duration of effectiveness of their child's once-daily stimulant or nonstimulant ADHD medication and were presented yesterday at the 2007 Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Annual Conference.

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