Patent ID: 8268804

Claim:
A method for the treatment of acne in a person using an oral dosage form, comprising: determining the body weight of the person; and selecting the dosage form based on the body weight of the person so that the dosage form provides the person, without an initial load dose, 0.7 mg/kg/day to 1.3 mg/kg/day of the minocycline or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof by a once daily administration, wherein the dosage form comprises: minocycline or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and an amount of a carrier, said carrier being a controlled-release carrier that provides a release rate in gastric fluid of the minocycline or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof that is either 25% to 52% within 1 hour, 53% to 89% within 2 hours, and at least 90% at 4 hours, or 30% to 52% within 1 hour, 53% to 84% within 2 hours, and at least 85% at 4 hours.