By discovering a new mechanism through which pain stimuli are relayed to the brain, researchers at the University of Leeds may have just enabled the scientific community to develop improved painkillers for a wide array of conditions.
In addition, the discovery helps explain why current efforts to develop working pai... |
15 May 2012
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Scientists at the Michigan State University say that painkillers are misused by the general population, but they reveal that young people are more likely to use these drugs for purposes other than their intended ones. This risk peaks around the age of 16, the team found in a new study. A paper detailing the finding... |
9 May 2012
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Worrying statistics published in a new scientific study indicate that the number of people who die following unintentional overdoses of prescription opioid pain killers has topped that of individuals who perish due to overdose from cocaine and heroin combined. What this means is that deaths caused by unintentional OD... |
27 April 2011
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Kryptonite significantly improves the quality of life in heart patients that are recovering from open-chest surgery, Dr. Paul Fedak, a cardiac surgeon at Foothills Hospital Medical Center, told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010 today. Last year, Calgary researchers invented a cutting-edge superglue called Kry... |
25 October 2010
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Yes it may seem like a strange subject, but Torunn Krangnes Fosse's doctoral thesis focused on piglets and their unique ability to break down and eliminate painkillers, and the research is actually very useful.In Europe, every year 98 million piglets are neutered, the procedure usually taking place before they t... |
11 October 2010
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The ancient craft of acupuncture has been with the Chinese people for thousands of years, and it has been used successfully to treat people ever since. The practice was not easily adopted in the West, mostly due to its spiritual component, and to the fact that it brings into focus details of the human body that canno... |
31 May 2010
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Most research laboratories around the world rely on various animals to conduct their experiments on. House mice are undoubtedly the most popular choice for a wide array of investigations, and, as such, the small rodents can indeed be credited as our unsung heroes. The dark side of research is that, most of the times,... |
10 May 2010
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Canadian scientists from the University of Calgary may have just found a solution to one of the most persistent problems in medicine today, and namely the availability of legal, tested painkillers. The investigators managed to successfully analyze the genome of the opioid poppy plant, the one that is currently used t... |
15 March 2010
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A San Francisco transplant surgeon faces criminal charges for the death of one of his patients, one Ruben Navarro, who was allegedly "pushed" to die by over-medication with morphine and a substance called Ativan, which is a sedative. Doctor Hootan Roozrokh was already cleared of two other felony charges earlier this ... |
4 November 2008
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The use of these painkillers has recently been linked to a lower risk of women developing breast cancer. The study shows that aspirin accounts for 13 percent less breast cancer cases among women using the drug, while ibuprofen decreases the risk of cancer developing by more than 21 percent. This means that these anti... |
9 October 2008
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