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FDA OKs Drug for Paget's Disease
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsTitle: FDA OKs Drug for Paget's DiseaseCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/17/2007Last Editorial Review: 4/17/2007 ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Nail Gun Injuries Soar
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsTitle: Nail Gun Injuries SoarCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/13/2007Last Editorial Review: 4/13/2007 ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Health Tip: Can You Recognize Osteoarthritis Symptoms?
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsTitle: Health Tip: Can You Recognize Osteoarthritis Symptoms?Category: Health NewsCreated: 4/24/2007 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/24/2007 ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Novel Stent Relieves Acute Heart Pain
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsTitle: Novel Stent Relieves Acute Heart PainCategory: Health NewsCreated: 4/24/2007 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/24/2007 ...
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Wed Apr 2007
American Pain Society Announces Recipients Of Clinical Centers Of Excellence In Pain Management Awards
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsThe American Pain Society (APS) announced recipients of its first Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards honoring the nation's outstanding pain care centers. Six multidisciplinary pain programs were selected. [click link for full article] ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Study On Treatment For Prescription Drug Addiction
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsUCSF is launching a new study to evaluate treatments for addiction to prescription painkillers and has openings for patients to enroll.This is the first large-scale study to assess whether addiction to opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, can effectively be treated with drug treatments ...
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Wed Apr 2007
BDSI Announces Positive Phase III Clinical Trial Results
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsBioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) announced today statistically significant results with BEMA Fentanyl in cancer patients with breakthrough pain in its pivotal Phase III efficacy clinical trial for the product. The results are based on achievement of the primary efficacy endpoi ...
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Wed Apr 2007
Pain Affecting Older People Being Researched By The University Of Nottingham
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsA little-understood medical condition - which affects millions of older people in Britain - is to be studied at The University of Nottingham. David Humes of the Division of Gastroenterology, in The School of Medical and Surgical Sciences, has gained funding from Help the Aged and the Royal College o ...
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Thu Apr 2007
Painful Puzzle Of UT Ligament Split Tear In Wrist Solved By Mayo Clinic
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsA Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon has discovered a common cause of debilitating wrist pain - a split tear of the UT ligament - that can be reliably detected through a simple physical examination and can be fully repaired through an arthroscopically guided surgical procedure. The findings are publishe ...
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Sun Apr 2007
Researchers Call For National Database Of Epidural Complications
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsResearchers have called for a national database to be set up to identify major complications arising from epidural pain relief after a small number of serious problems were identified during a six-year UK study, according to the April issue of Anaesthesia.They discovered that 12 of the 8,100 people ...
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Mon Apr 2007
Researchers Call For National Database Of Epidural Complications, UK
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsResearchers have called for a national database to be set up to identify major complications arising from epidural pain relief after a small number of serious problems were identified during a six-year UK study, according to the April issue of Anaesthesia. They discovered that 12 of the 8,100 people ...
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Mon Apr 2007
Get In Swing Without Tendon Pain
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsSpring's here. It's time to restring your tennis racquet or dust off the old golf clubs, but that tendon pain in your elbow, shoulder or ankle may force you to keep the clubs in the bag or the racquet in its case. For some people, resting the affected tendon may be all they need to ease the pain, bu ...
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Sat Mar 2007
Pain Control After Surgery Reduces Days Of Hospitalization
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsEffective postoperative pain control using continuous peripheral nerve block reduced average length-of-stay by nearly a day, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine physicians reported today during the 81st Clinical and Scientific Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society at the ...
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Sat Mar 2007
Long-term Aspirin Use Associated With Reduced Risk Of Dying In Women
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsWomen who take low to moderate doses of aspirin have a reduced risk of death from any cause, and especially heart disease-related deaths, according to a report in the March 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.Some studies have provided evidence that aspirin m ...
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Sat Mar 2007
Pain Relief Made Easier - Consultation On Prescribing Of Controlled Drugs By Nurses And Pharmacists, UK
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsThe Government is today launching two consultations that aim to make it easier for patients to get the medicines they need by allowing: - the prescribing of controlled drugs, including for pain relief, by nurse independent prescribers and pharmacist independent prescribers. [click link for full art ...
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Tue Mar 2007
In Palliative Medicine Morphine Kills Pain, Not Patients
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsMany people, including health care workers, believe that morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to control pain for a patient who is dying. That is a misconception according to new research published in the latest issue of Palliative Medicine, from SAGE Publications. [click link for f ...
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Mon Mar 2007
Doctors Day 2007 Promotes Importance Of Quitting Smoking Before Surgery
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsSmokers have heard all of the reasons for quitting before: smoking increases their risk for lung disease, heart disease and cancer, and the habit will literally take years off their life. But one reason to quit may not be as well known smokers require special consideration when undergoing anesthesia ...
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Sun Mar 2007
New Research Finds Patients Do Live Longer Under Hospice Care
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsA new study published in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management reports that hospice care may prolong the lives of some terminally ill patients. Among the patient populations studied, the mean survival was 29 days longer for hospice patients than for non-hospice patien ...
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Thu Mar 2007
Potential New Painkiller Drug Developed By Scientists At Leicester And In Italy
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsA potential new pain-killing drug developed by medical scientists at the University of Leicester and Ferrara in Italy is to be discussed at a public lecture on 20th March.Professor David Lambert, who has been involved in the development the drug in collaboration with Dr Girolamo Calo in Ferrara Ital ...
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Sun Mar 2007
Do Doctors Understand That Morphine Kills Pain, Not Patients?
Categorie : Pain / AnestheticsMedical practitioners are ignorant of the facts and must stop reinforcing the public's perception that morphine hastens death in sick patients or alters their survival, finds new research published today. Two papers in the peer reviewed journal Palliative Medicine, published by SAGE Publications add ...
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Sat Mar 2007
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