Coapt Systems, Inc. Launches Hydrelle(TM) a New, FDA-Approved Dermal Filler with Lidocaine for Significant Wrinkle Correction and Greater Patient Comfort

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Coapt Systems, Inc. ( www.coaptsystems.com ) announced the launch of Hydrelle(TM) a new, FDA-approved hyaluronic acid based dermal filler for the treatment of facial wrinkles, such as nasolabial folds, also called "smile lines." Hydrelle is the first FD...

Echo Therapeutics Licenses Needle-Free Prelude SkinPrep System to Ferndale Pharma for Enhanced Delivery of Topical Lidocaine

FRANKLIN, Mass., May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ECTE) announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Ferndale Pharma Group ("Ferndale"), under which Echo granted Ferndale the right to develop, market, sell and distribute Echo's Prelude(TM...

As Fire Ants Continue to Proliferate, Hospital-Proven Burn Anesthetic Brings Instant Relief for Bites, Stings

...in. Fortunately, the same anesthetic hospitals use on burn patients has been proven equally, instantly effective on fire ant stings. That anesthetic, lidocaine , is now available in a maximum-strength, over-the-counter product: Fire Ant Coolant(TM) from Coastal Solutions, Inc. Available online and nation...

Popular Jellyfish Sting Treatment Also Proven Effective on Stings From Portuguese Man-of-War

...ellyfish Squish(TM) contains the maximum amount of lidocaine that is allowed without a prescription. lidocaine penetrates the skin within 30 seconds to stop the ...ls left on the skin from discharging their toxins. lidocaine is used in doctors' offices, hospitals and burn un...

Topical Spray Helped Men With Premature Ejaculation

...culation, were randomly selected to receive a placebo spray with no active ingredients (100 men) or the PSD502 spray, which contains 7.5 milligrams of lidocaine and 2.5 mg of prilocaine (200 men). During the three-month study, the men used either the placebo or the PSD502 spray five minutes before intercour...

Premature ejaculation spray enables men to last 6 times longer after penetration

... 31 centres in the UK, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, were randomised into two groups. Two hundred used the PSD502 spray, which contains 7.5mg of lidocaine and 2.5mg of prilocaine, and 100 used a placebo spray with no active ingredients. Every time they had intercourse during the three-month study per...

Patients Say MPM Medical's Regenecare Gel Significantly Reduced the Itching and Pain of Skin Rashes Triggered by Anti-Cancer Drugs

...hen using Regenecare, according to the study. Researchers credit Regenecare's unparalleled pain relief and wound healing to its formulation of 2% lidocaine (for local pain management), marine collagen (to promote tissue formation), Aloe vera (to enhance circulation and to promote emollient effect) and sod...

Child Life Council Urges Parents to Think Ahead to Ease Child's Hospital Visit

...ngle-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local analgesia to redu...ewski J, Kauffman RE et al. Needlefree Powder lidocaine Delivery System Provides Rapid Effective Analgesia...tion Pain After Fast- Onset Needlefree Powder lidocaine or Placebo Treatment Trial. Pediatrics. 2008;...

Urigen Announces Issuance of Key Patent for URG101 - A Novel Therapy to Treat Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis

...URG101 URG101 is a pharmaceutical treatment for Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis that is instilled into the bladder. URG101 works with lidocaine reducing the sensations of pain, urge and muscle spasms and heparin, a glycosaminoglycan, coating the bladder wall thus augmenting the natural heparin...

Over-the-counter anesthetic gel puts the squeeze on mammogram pain

...ast density. However, women who received a topical application of 4 percent lidocaine gel reported significantly less breast discomfort during mammography. "... 10 percent said they would probably get a mammogram the following year. lidocaine gel is a readily available, over-the-counter anesthetic that is easy to app...

Lidocaine in Medical Technology

Iontophoretic Drug Delivery System (IDDS) Containing Lidocaine and Epinephrine is Effective in Reducing Pain Associated With Insertion of an Intravenous Catheter in a Phase 2 Clinical Trial

SEATTLE, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Dharma Therapeutics, Inc., ("Dharma") Seattle, WA (a subsidiary of the Transcu Group Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Exchange Limited) announced that its improved active transdermal delivery technology, which administers lidocaine and epinephrine through ...

Positive Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results for Transdermal Lidocaine

Trial Demonstrates Increased Dermal Penetration of TPM/Lidocaine Compared to Topical Anaesthetic Xylocaine(R) MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Phosphagenics Limited ("Phosphagenics") (ASX: POH; OTCQX: PPGNY) today announced the successful completion of a phase 1 clini...

Phosphagenics Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Humans for Its Transdermal Lidocaine

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Phosphagenics Limited ("Phosphagenics") (ASX: POH; AIM: PSG; OTCQX: PPGNY) announced today that it has initiated a phase 1 human clinical trial using its patented drug delivery system, TPM, for the targeted delivery of a leading pain rel...

Phosphagenics Reports Positive Pre-clinical Results for Targeted Delivery of Lidocaine

- Company's TPM Drug Delivery Technology Demonstrates Substantial Increase in Lidocaine Penetration Compared to a Leading Marketed Product - MELBOURNE, Australia, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Phosphagenics Limited ("Phosphagenics") (ASX: POH, AIM: PSG, OTCQX: PPGNY) today announced posi...

Columbia Laboratories Reports Positive Results from Multi-dose Pharmacokinetic Study of Vaginally-administered Lidocaine

LIVINGSTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 27, 2007 - Columbia Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBRX) today announced positive results from a recently-completed multi-dose pharmacokinetic study of vaginally-administered lidocaine, which the Company is developing to prevent and treat dysmenorrhea. This 42-s...

NeurogesX Announces Preliminary Results of FDA-Requested Qutenza(TM) Study

...23, 24 patients received a single 60-minute Qutenza patch application following a 60-minute pretreatment with an FDA-approved topical anesthetic (2.5% lidocaine / 2.5% prilocaine). The mean duration of patch application was evaluated as the primary endpoint analysis. Patients were monitored for seven days foll...

Cognition Therapeutics Closes Series A Financing to Advance Drug Candidates for Alzheimer's Disease

... memory loss. In addition, the company's proprietary chemistry is based on natural molecular scaffolds which brought us effective drugs like aspirin, lidocaine and taxol. We anticipate new disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer's disease will result from this unique combination," Dr. Hefti continued. ...

American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2009 Annual Meeting 'Highlights and Hot Topics'

...scopic shoulder surgeries than previously thought and that this complication is not limited to young patients. Chondrolysis can follow the infusion of lidocaine as well as bupivacaine, the only medication previously thought to be involved. Additionally, chondrolysis can occur without the use of radiofrequency ...

Shingles Pain Treatment Will Benefit More Patients

...ecision (issued in February 2007) for Versatis (5% lidocaine medicated plaster) is based on significant new cli...is is an innovative combination of local analgesic lidocaine and a soft hydrogel plaster. Application of the pl...aster to the skin releases an appropriate level of lidocaine into the skin to impair the transfer of signals wh...

ELADUR(TM) Development Update: DURECT Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Bupivacaine for Post-Herpetic Neuralgia

... single application, as compared to a wearing time limited to 12 hours with currently available anesthetic patches (e.g., Lidoderm(R), an FDA-approved lidocaine patch for post-herpetic neuralgia pain management). Bupivacaine, the active agent in ELADUR, is a potent, FDA-approved long-acting local anesthetic us...

Lidocaine in Medical Products

Artecoll Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Microspheres

Description:... surfaces. 99.9% of the remaining monomers have been removed during the processing of the PMMA. Artecoll contains an average concentration of 0.3% lidocaine hydrochloride. It is used as an injectable micro-implant for long-lasting subdermal augmentation, which includes the correction of wrinkles and of oth...
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Lidocaine in Biological News

The pepperoni pizza hypothesis

...ic pain is so intense some women inject anesthetic lidocaine directly into their bladders to get relief. Patien...lamed bladder with pelvic pain. Then they injected lidocaine into the bladder. The pain vanished. Next they injected lidocaine into the uterus. There was no diminishment of the...

New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development

...aining three. Because ion channels are a prominent feature of the nervous system and elsewhere, they are a popular target for drugs. For example, lidocaine and Novocain target sodium-channels. In nature, some of the most potent venoms and toxins work by blocking these channels, including the venom of cert...

Predicting successful outcomes in living-donor liver transplants

...any investigated ICG elimination, galactose elimination capacity (GEC), and lidocaine elimination as markers for the quality of liver regeneration in 22 donors a...n donors and improved significantly in recipients during that period, while lidocaine elimination showed no significant changes. "In this study we evaluated only...

Lidocaine in Biological Technology

Innocoll, Inc. Files 510 (k) Application for CollaRx Lidocaine Sponge

ASHBURN, Va., March 31 /PRNewswire/ --- Innocoll, Inc. announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Innocoll Pharmaceuticals, has filed a US 510k application for its CollaRx(TM) Lidocaine Sponge for the management of painful wounds. It is estimated that each year 13 million patients worldwid...

NeurogesX Provides U.S. Regulatory Update for Qutenza(TM)

...proximately 20 patients with PHN to receive the Qutenza patch application after a 60-minute pretreatment with an FDA-approved topical anesthetic (2.5% lidocaine / 2.5% prilocaine) The endpoint of the study is the mean duration of patch application. Previous clinical trial experience using the OTC topical anest...

BioForm Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2008

... dermal filler technology. The first new commercial product derived from these efforts is expected to be a form of RADIESSE dermal filler with lidocaine which may improve comfort for patients and flow characteristics for physicians, and is expected to be launched in the United States and Europe...

Anesiva Launches Needle-Free Zingo(TM) to Reduce Pain from IV Starts and Blood Draws in Children

...n undergoing these procedures remain largely under- treated.(3) Zingo is an easy-to-administer, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local analgesia to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws, approved for use in children ag...

Radiesse(R) Dermal Filler Featured Prominently in Journal of Dermatologic Surgery Special Issue on Fillers

...m Hydroxylapatite in a Carrier Gel When Mixed with lidocaine and with Lidocaine/Epinephrine - MARIANO BUSSO, MD...m Hydroxylapatite in a Carrier Gel When Mixed with lidocaine and with Lidocaine/Epinephrine This study, led b... tests the authors determined that the addition of lidocaine to Radiesse filler can be accomplished without adv...

FDA Accepts Zingo(TM) Supplemental New Drug Application to Reduce Pain Associated With Peripheral Needle Insertion Procedures in Adults

...vents with Zingo was no higher than with placebo. About Zingo Zingo is an easy-to-administer, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local analgesia to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws. Zingo's rapid onset of action a...

Anesiva Announces Expansion of Zingo Agreement in Europe

...tion of Zingo in the licensed countries." About Zingo(TM) Zingo(TM) is an easy-to-administer, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local anesthesia to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws. Zingo's rapid onset of action ...

Anesiva Announces New Zingo Marketing and Distribution Agreement

...ghlin, Anesiva's chief executive officer. About Zingo(TM) Zingo(TM) is an easy-to-administer, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local anesthesia to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws. Zingo's rapid onset of action ...

Anesiva Announces Submission of Supplemental New Drug Application for Zingo(TM) to Reduce Pain Associated With Needle Insertion Procedures in Adults

...ments are associated with pre-surgery procedures. About Zingo Zingo is an easy-to-administer, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder to provide topical, local analgesia to reduce the pain associated with peripheral IV insertions or blood draws. Zingo's rapid onset of action a...

Anesiva Outlines Comprehensive Commercialization Plan for FDA Approved Product Zingo(TM)

...ated with Venous Access Procedures in Children Three to 18 Years of Age Zingo is a ready-to-use, single-use, needle-free system that delivers sterile lidocaine powder into the epidermis of the skin and provides topical, local analgesia in one to three minutes after administration. This rapid onset, which may ...