Pain Relief

At least half of all cancer patients seen in routine practice report inadequate relief, according to the American College of Physicians. For cancer patients in pain, adequate relief is quite literally a flip of the coin. ...

The Pain Relief Scandal
Patients in Pain Due to "Opium Phobia" “Opium has been recently made from white poppies, cultivated for the purpose, in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut.... comparatively large quantities are regularly sent East from California ...

Stopain Pain Relief
Get fast, long-lasting relief from everyday arthritis, muscle and back pain with Stopain Pain Relief formulas. Stopain is recommended by Doctors and Pharmacists because it penetrates deep to help relieve pain, and lets you get on with ...

Shoulder Pain at Back Pain Relief
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The Two Options for Spinal Stenosis - Pain Relief and Surgery
In general terms, spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal cord and the resultant compression of the sciatic nerve it causes. The most common cause is a gradual, degenerative process that can be triggered by structural changes or ......

Pain specialists and surgeons at Sacred Heart Hospital are using an innovative medical device that provides surgery patients with effective pain relief without the use of narcotics.

What a Relief: BDSI Lands $60M Deal for Rights to Cancer Pain Reliever (Local Tech Wire)
Morrisville — BioDelivery Services’ proposed product to treat severe cancer pain has yet to win Food and Drug Administration approval, but it is already producing big returns for the Triangle-based firm.

Pain patients at risk for sleep apnea (EurekAlert!)
Opioid-based pain medications may cause sleep apnea, according to an article in the September issue of Pain Medicine, the journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.

Pain Patients At Risk For Sleep Apnea (Science Daily)
Sleep-disordered breathing was common when chronic pain patients took prescribed opioids. A direct dose-response relationship was found between central sleep apnea and methadone and benzodiazepines, an association which had not been previously reported.

Pain, pain, it can go away (The Globe and Mail)
Needles will always remain, but pain doesn't have to ...

Forbes - Zynex Medical Holdings, Inc. (founded in 1996) engineers, manufactures, markets and sells its own design of electrotherapy medical devices in two distinct markets: standard digital electrotherapy products for pain relief and pain management; and the ...

Younger America, Inc. Launches Investor Awareness Initiative
MSN MoneyCentral - Younger America believes that every day should be a day without pain, which is why they are committed to utilizing innovative technologies to develop products that focus on pain therapy and pain relief without the use of potentially harmful drugs ...

Pain patients at risk for sleep apnea
EurekAlert - An increasing number of patients with nonmalignant chronic pain are receiving around-the-clock pain relief through opioid therapy. The researchers studied sleep lab data on 140 patients taking around-the-clock opioid therapy for chronic pain to ...

Javelin Pharmaceuticals CEO to Provide Corporate Overview and Updates ...
Forbes - Lower doses of ketamine than those approved for anesthetic use have been observed to produce significant pain relief. Javelin is developing PMI-150 for several intended indications. The first, for which clinical efficacy trials have now been ...

Are companies calling the shots?
Daily Reflector - Dayton, Ohio — Vioxx is the most notorious of medications that turned out to be dangerous after widespread use by people who didn't need them. There was no evidence that Vioxx or other Cox-2 inhibitors were more effective pain-relief drugs than ... ...

WebMD looks at the options for pain relief during childbirth. ... It is important for you to learn what pain relief options are available. ...

MedlinePlus: Pain
... NIH organization for research on Pain is the National Institute of Neurological ... Chronic Pain: How to Get Relief(American Academy of Family Physicians) ...

Pain Relief
Offers a natural pain reliever ointment for the treatment of arthritis, joint pain, muscle soreness, and more.

Pain Relief Network " Welcome to PRN
... and activists who are working toward a day when people in pain will be afforded ... Pain Relief Network was founded in 2002 in response to the Bush Administration's ...

Pain Relief
For those men facing hormone refractory prostate cancer. ... The risk of addiction should not keep you from getting adequate pain relief. ......

UAMS First in Arkansas to Offer Knee Implant Providing Pain Relief.

Back Pain Relief Product
Today when it comes to treating back there are a number of different back pain relief products on the market that a person is able to use. There are ones which a person can readily buy over the counter at their local drug store to ...

Cymbalta for pain relief: Furious Seasons
... and measuring the tiny beads of medicine for proper slow titration when withdrawing from it. Read more about Cymbalta from a patient who it was prescribed for as a non-narcotic pain reliever in the Cymbalta-Puckett Series Begins.

Joint Pain: Massage Before Medication?
In light of this provocative information, patients may wish to consider the benefits of a physical therapist's intervention for pain relief from certain chronic conditions, says the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). ...


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News.com.au - Peter Till, 39, of Nimbin in northern NSW, told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he uses the drug for relief. Mr Till has pleaded not guilty to one count of possession of a dangerous drug after allegedly taking a 90cm-tall plant into the Brisbane ...

Seattle office of Tegic / Nuance expected to remain
Seattle Times - Pain-relief system grant awarded Medical-equipment maker Talaria said Friday it received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a pain-relief system known as Carewave. The Seattle-based, privately held company said the ...

American Opinion
American Reporter - A not-for-profit advocacy group, the Pain Relief Network, is attempting to raise funds to sue the government to have the Controlled Substances Act declared unconstitutional, and is seeking to enjoin the DEA from enforcing the law against physicians

Researchers Separate Analgesic Effects From Addictive Aspects Of Pain ...
Science Daily - Science Daily — For the first time, pain researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that it's possible to separate the good effects of opiate drugs such as morphine (pain relief) from the unwanted side effects ...

The Household Name Nobody Knows
Barron's Online - Its products include Gold Bond powders and skin creams, ICYHOT pain-relief products and Selsun blue shampoo. Early this year, Chattem paid $410 million for five former Pfizer brands that had to be sold before regulators would approve Johnson & Johnson ... ...

Medical News Today - People with chronic, intractable back know exactly what they need relief directly where it hurts. Peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS), the newest weapon against back pain for people who are finding no relief from conventional treatment ...

American Opinion
American Reporter - A not-for-profit advocacy group, the Pain Relief Network, is attempting to raise funds to sue the government to have the Controlled Substances Act declared unconstitutional, and is seeking to enjoin the DEA from enforcing the law against physicians

Cannabis case a headache for accused
News.com.au - Peter Till, 39, of Nimbin in northern NSW, told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he uses the drug for pain relief. Mr Till has pleaded not guilty to one count of possession of a dangerous drug after allegedly taking a 90cm-tall plant into the Brisbane ...

Analgesic Effects Separated From Addictive Aspects Of Pain-Killing ...
Medical News Today - For the first time, pain researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that it's possible to separate the good effects of opiate drugs such as morphine (pain relief) from the unwanted side effects of those drugs ...

The Household Name Nobody Knows
Barron's Online - Its products include Gold Bond powders and skin creams, ICYHOT pain-relief products and Selsun blue shampoo. Early this year, Chattem paid $410 million for five former Pfizer brands that had to be sold before regulators would approve Johnson & Johnson ... ...

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Pharmaceutical group Futura Medical PLC said it has appointed Professor Robert Moore DSc as its advisory consultant in the therapeutic area of pain relief.

Analgesic Effects Separated From Addictive Aspects Of Pain-Killing Drugs (Medical News Today)
For the first time, pain researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that it's possible to separate the good effects of opiate drugs such as morphine (pain relief) from the unwanted side effects of those drugs (tolerance, abuse and addiction).The investigators, led by Zhou-Feng Chen, Ph.D. [click link for full article]

A Pacemaker for Pain; Peripheral Nerve Field Stimulation (Newswise)
People with chronic, intractable back pain know exactly what they need - relief directly where it hurts. Peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS), the newest weapon against back pain for people who are finding no relief from conventional treatment, does just that, says Dr. Eugene Lipov, who is Director of Research, Alexian Brothers Hospital Network Pain Program.

After push for pain relief, state feels side effects (Seattle Times)
Ten years ago, the state of Washington began a major push to make sure doctors weren't undertreating pain. The change was revolutionary...

Zingo Offers Pain Relief During Child Injections (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Zingo Offers Pain Relief During Child Injections Category: Health News Created: 8/18/2007 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/20/2007...

MSNBC - Pain-relief specialist Alpharma (NYSE: ALO) has a sales force of 200 supporting just one drug. Rather than wait until the 2009 launch of its second drug to put its force to better use, the company went ahead and licensed a drug for its sales force to ...

World of pain
Globe and Mail - She contributed money to appeal some of the criminal convictions in South Carolina and started the Pain Relief Network, an advocacy organization for people living in pain. She believes the doctors sent to prison were railroaded. “It was a witch hunt ...

Peruvian President García takes charge of quake relief
Miami Herald - But he could be in trouble as disorganization in the relief effort becomes increasingly obvious. ''The chaos is among the worst ... baby boy in a tent hospital, cuddling the newborn and proclaiming: ``He is a message of hope in the midst of death and pain ...

Peru's president takes charge of relief effort for quake, putting ...
International Herald Tribune - But he could be in trouble as disorganization in the relief effort becomes increasingly obvious. "The chaos is among the worst ... baby boy in a tent hospital, cuddling the newborn and proclaiming: "He is a message of hope in the midst of death and pain."

Rockford-Montgomery Labs, Inc. Completes Manufacturing of Its 360
MSN MoneyCentral - 360 OTC(TM) products include 360 OTC(TM) Pain Relief and 360 OTC(TM) Ignite (an alertness-aid), which are available now in approximately 12,121 CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens and Meijer stores nationally. For more information, please visit the company's ... ...

MSNBC - Pain-relief specialist Alpharma (NYSE: ALO) has a sales force of 200 supporting just one drug. Rather than wait until the 2009 launch of its second drug to put its force to better use, the company went ahead and licensed a drug for its sales force to ...

Rockford-Montgomery Labs, Inc. Completes Manufacturing of Its 360 OTC ...
MSN MoneyCentral - 360 OTC(TM) products include 360 OTC(TM) Pain Relief and 360 OTC(TM) Ignite (an alertness-aid), which are available now in approximately 12,121 CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens and Meijer stores nationally. For more information, please visit the company's ...

World of pain
Globe and Mail - She contributed money to appeal some of the criminal convictions in South Carolina and started the Pain Relief Network, an advocacy organization for people living in pain. She believes the doctors sent to prison were railroaded. “It was a witch hunt ...

Peru's president takes charge of relief effort for quake, putting ...
International Herald Tribune - But he could be in trouble as disorganization in the relief effort becomes increasingly obvious. "The chaos is among the worst ... baby boy in a tent hospital, cuddling the newborn and proclaiming: "He is a message of hope in the midst of death and pain."

EUSA Pharma Acquires Assets of Innocoll Inc
Phramalive.com - The CollaRx(r) bupivacaine surgical implant is designed to provide local post-operative pain relief and thereby also reduce opioid dependency. The implant is a leave-behind collagen matrix loaded with the local anaesthetic bupivacaine, which has ... ...