Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
... one of the challenges now. Morphine, an effective painkiller that the military commonly uses for the acute pain of battle injuries, currently needs to be injected by skilled medical personnel and has to be monitored carefully to control its troublesome tendency to suppress normal breathing. This proposal pr...Kaiser Permanente Unveils Groundbreaking Genetic Research Program
... For example, a Kaiser Permanente/FDA study on the painkiller Vioxx revealed an increased risk of cardiovascular events for those taking the drug. To ensure that the RPGEH meets the highest scientific standards, as well as addresses issues of potential concern to different communities, the Division of Resea...Kaiser Permanente Unveils Groundbreaking Genetic Research Program
... For example, a Kaiser Permanente/FDA study on the painkiller Vioxx revealed an increased risk of cardiovascular events for those taking the drug. To ensure that the RPGEH meets the highest scientific standards, as well as addresses issues of potential concern to different communities, the Division of Resea......pes the new findings make it feasible to develop a painkiller based on RgIA that could be taken orally, but he believes that will take at least 10 years. McIntosh co-authored the study with two colleagues in the University of Utah Center for Neuropeptide Pharmacology Baldomero "Toto" Olivera, a distinguished...Chemical imbalance may explain painkiller's cardiac danger
...mplications in patients taking the cox-2 inhibitor painkiller rofecoxib (Vioxx) may result from a chemical imbalance, according to an animal study in the September Cell Metabolism. The findings suggest that low-dose aspirin might prevent the cardiac damage of such drugs and might also lead to the development of...Aspirin might prevent Vioxx cardiac damage
...rdiovascular damage known to arise from use of the painkiller rofecoxib (Vioxx), suggest new findings from mouse studies by Duke University Medical Center researchers. Their findings that a chemical imbalance might underlie such damage could also lead to the development of anti-inflammatory drugs without the ad...Prescription pain patch abuse blamed for increase in deaths
...ingly turning to a slow-release form of a powerful painkiller for a quick and dangerous high, University of Florida researchers warn. The trend is raising alarm as the number of people dying from an overdose of the drug fentanyl, an opioid 100 times more potent than morphine, rises. Addicts are misusing a clear......says McIntosh first isolated and characterized the painkiller in the venom of the fish-hunting cone snail Conus magus, or magician's cone, which is about 1.5 inches long and thus too small to kill people it stings, as do some larger cone snails. McIntosh discovered a component or "factor" in the venom affecte...