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Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy For Heart Patients With Moderate To Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit From Other Treatments

Individuals with moderate to severe chest pains (angina) who have not found relief from medication may benefit from a new gene therapy approach being used by cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center to grow new blood vessels in the heart. The phase II clinical research study uses vascular endothelial growth factor-2 (VEGF-2) in the form of a solution containing a DNA plasmid that i...

FDA Clears the Way for Generic Versions of Transdermal Patches to Treat Chronic Pain

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Mylan Technologies, Inc., for the first generic version of Alza Corporation's Duragesic Patch (Fentanyl Transdermal System) used to treat patients suffering from severe chronic pain that cannot be managed with alternative analgesics. When applied to the skin, this patch technology delivers fentanyl, an opioid pain medication that is s...

Canada approves marijuana-based pain spray

Health Canada has approved Sativex® (Cannabis sativa L. extract) a new drug developed as adjunctive treatment for the symptomatic relief of neuropathic pain in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS). Canada becomes the first country in the world to approve Sativex, a novel prescription pharmaceutical product derived from components of the cannabis plant shown to have therapeutic properties. Sativex...

Morphine for Chest Pain Increases Death Risk

While patients hospitalized for a heart attack have long been treated with morphine to relieve chest pain, an analysis by researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute has shown that these patients have almost a 50 percent higher risk of dying. The researchers call for a randomized clinical trial to confirm their analysis. Meanwhile, they advise cardiologists to begin treatment wi...

Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief

new study shows, for the first time, that the release of the body's own marijuana-like compounds is crucial to stress-induced analgesia ?the body's way of initially shielding pain after a serious injury. The work, led by scientists at the University of Georgia and the University of California, Irvine, may yield a target for new drug therapies that will completely bypass the current argume...

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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Nerds have always been unpopular. Paul Graham thinks this is a good thing. The first essay in depicts...

Outsourcing: Net gain or shifting the pain?

This weekend I attended a talk at my local elementary school given by Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and a prominent proponent of systems thinking. Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, body of knowledge and tool set developed over the past fifty years, to train people to see the big picture to make patterns and interrelationships clearer, and to help see how to make systemati...

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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

Death Rates Higher for Those Without This Symptom. As many as one-third of patients never have chest pains prior to or during a heart attack, a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests. And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined symp...

Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives

According to some British researhers increasing doses of painkillers to ease the agony of terminally ill patients does not shorten their lives.Some health professionals have criticized the practice, comparing it to euthanasia, but doctors at St Christopher's Hospice in London claim patients receiving higher doses of drugs such as morphine live just as long as those who do not. In re...

Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief

Many more patients with chronic pancreatitis can safely turn to a minimally invasive operation for long-term pain relief, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins University physicians. Endoscopic therapy is an effective alternative to more invasive surgery or drugs, says Anthony N. Kalloo, MD, director of GI endoscopy at Hopkins and lead author of the study that appeared in the July...

Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

Latest research into transcendental meditation says it is possible to fight body pain and a host of risk factors of heart disease including high blood pressure and fatty deposition in blood vessels- atherosclerosis. The study indicates that transcendental meditation, practiced for 20 minutes twice a day, has a positive, measurable effect on the buildup of fatty deposits in arteries and al...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

The 58th annual session of the American Association of Endodontists in New Orleans, Louisiana, began with a warning from the scientific community. In a terse message, the dentists said that all toothache need not have dental origins and that toothache should not be ignored because it may be the early warning for more important problems. Especially in the third world countries, dental care...

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GenePaint

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Ipump Pain Management System

Description:The Ipump Pain Management System answers the day-to-day needs of the clinical environment with one-on-one flexibility. From programming to data retrieval, the Ipump system puts customizable pain management right where you want it. The flexible Ipump system is designed to help each patient become ambulatory as quickly as possible....
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Povidone Iodine Paint Saturated Swabsticks

Description:Aplicare's Saturated Swabsticks are packaged in easy open, single-use foil-laminated pouches. Each 4 inch Swabstick is saturated with precisely the correct amount of solution. Each package is terminally sterilized, ensuring the safest possible product for the patient. It acts as a prophylactic anti-infective agent in hospital and office procedures, providing protection against possible infection....
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Povidone Iodine Paint - (10% PVP-I) Triple Saturated Swabsticks

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Clinical Study Shows Regenecare Relieves Pain and Itching of Skin Rashes Caused by Widely Used Cancer Drugs

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - The Journal of theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology has published the earlyresults of a clinical study conducted by Dr. Siu-Fun Wong, and hercolleagues, which concluded that the topical gel, Regenecare(R),caused a statistically significant reduction in the pain anditching of a rash that results from the use of anti-cancer drugsknown as EGFR...

Anesiva Announces Phase 2 Data Showing Substantial, Long-Term Pain Reductions with Adlea(TM) (formerly 4975) in Osteoarthritis of the Knee

- Pain Reductions Observed at Eight Weeks Sustained up to 12 Weeksand Drug Remains Very Well Tolerated - SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 02, 2007/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Anesiva, Inc. today announced preliminarylonger-term, follow-up results from a Phase 2 study showing that a1mg treatment with Adlea(TM) (formerly 4975) in patients withmoderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee prod...

Labopharm to Present Poster on Dose Titration of Once-daily Tramadol at 3rd International Forum on Pain Medicine

- Article Discussing Pharmacokinetics and Dose Proportionality ofCompany's Once-Daily Tramadol to be Published in BiopharmaceuticsJournal - LAVAL, QC, June 29, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Labopharm Inc.today announced that it will present a poster discussing the dosetitration of its once-daily formulation of tramadol at the 3rdInternational Forum on Pain Medicine to be held June 28 to J...

CombinatoRx Product Candidate CRx-150 Shows Activity on DAS28 and Pain, but Not CRP

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 28, 2007 - CombinatoRx,Incorporated (NASDAQ: CRXX) today announced preliminary results ofits randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial ofCRx-150 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The trialcompared CRx-150 plus a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug(DMARD) to placebo plus DMARD (control) in subjects with active RA.In the prelimin...

Expert Opinion Highlights Avigen's AV411 as Potential New Therapeutic for Neuropathic Pain and Opioid Withdrawal

Focus On AV411's Unique Mechanism of Action and Broad Potential forthe Treatment of Neurological Conditions ALAMEDA, Calif., June 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Avigen, Inc.(Nasdaq:AVGN), a biopharmaceutical company innovating therapeuticsfor the treatment of neurological conditions, announced today thatExpert Opinion on Investigational Drugs has published an articlefeaturing...

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