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Adynxx receives FDA Fast Track designation for AYX1 Injection to treat chronic pain

Adynxx, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a first-in-class platform of therapeutics to address pain at its molecular roots, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Fast Track designation to AYX1 Injection for the prevention of chronic pain.

17 Jul 2013

International standard heart disease treatment offered at Vejthani Hospital Bangkok

Vejthani Hospital Bangkok offers the international standard heart disease treatment, the ways to relieve your pain at Vejthani Heart Center. We provide not only full range of medical services but also high experience specialists to give you the best recommendation to heal your heart.

17 Jul 2013

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals enters into agreement to acquire Talon Therapeutics

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company with fully-integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in hematology and oncology, today announced that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, the company entered into an agreement to acquire Talon Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company based in South San Francisco, California, and expects to complete the acquisition within one day.

17 Jul 2013

Long-term cannabis use, dopamine and motivation: an interview with Dr Michael Bloomfield, Department of Medicine at Imperial

We classified ‘long-term’ cannabis use as being regular, at least weekly, cannabis use for over 12 months. This is the period of time that’s used in the DSM-IV psychiatric diagnostic manual to classify substance use disorders. In our study the average duration of at least weekly use was just over four and a half years.

17 Jul 2013

Progress made in understanding Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

The next step has been made into isolating the origin of cells linked to the progressive disorder Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

17 Jul 2013

Cell therapies may stop or reverse pain and disability of degenerative disc disease

Cell therapies may stop or reverse the pain and disability of degenerative disc disease and the loss of material between vertebrae, according to Duke University scientists.

17 Jul 2013

FDA accepts Iroko's submicron indomethacin NDA for treatment of acute pain in adults

Iroko Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a global specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to scientific advancements in analgesia, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review the New Drug Application for lower dose submicron indomethacin, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, for the proposed indication of treatment of mild to moderate acute pain in adults.

16 Jul 2013

UAB researchers study link between sleep and pain among patients with knee osteoarthritis

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham want to know more about the relationship between sleep and pain.

16 Jul 2013

Furiex Pharmaceuticals enrolls patient for Phase III clinical trial of eluxadoline for treatment of diarrhea

Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: FURX) today announced completion of patient enrollment in the company's two ongoing Phase III clinical trials studying eluxadoline for the treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS-d. Both studies met their target enrollments and Furiex expects to release top line results in the first quarter of 2014.

16 Jul 2013

Music decreases children's perceived sense of pain, say researchers

Newly published findings by medical researchers at the University of Alberta provide more evidence that music decreases children's perceived sense of pain.

16 Jul 2013

New study encourages pediatricians to treat the cause, not the symptoms

Researchers at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital have found that more than 25 percent of children with cerebral palsy seen by physicians have moderate to severe chronic pain, limiting their activity. Findings indicate that pediatricians should be aware of chronic pain in this group and try to identify and treat its underlying causes.

16 Jul 2013

Protein complex may be an effective alternative to opioid pain medications

A drug targeting a protein complex containing two different types of opioid receptors may be an effective alternative to morphine and other opioid pain medications, without any of the side effects or risk of dependence, according to research led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

16 Jul 2013

Actavis receives FDA approval for Opana ER tablets

Actavis, Inc. (NYSE: ACT) today announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) for Oxymorphone Hydrochloride Extended-release Tablets, 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg and 40 mg.

15 Jul 2013

UCL surgery shows excellent long-term outcomes in baseball players

Baseball players undergoing ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) surgery are able to return to the same or higher level of competition for an extended period of time, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

15 Jul 2013

Natural tissue graft can spur regeneration of cartilage; improves symptoms in knee cartilage damaged patients

A natural tissue graft can spur regeneration of cartilage and improve symptoms in patients who have cartilage damage in their knee, according to a study by researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery.

15 Jul 2013

UC Riverside study finds that married men are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS

At the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s men who were married were significantly less likely to die of HIV/AIDS than their divorced or otherwise single counterparts, according to a University of California, Riverside analysis of new mortality data for that era.

15 Jul 2013

Viewpoints: 'Implosion' of the ACA; Administration 'spin machine'; Republicans on 'search-and-destroy' mission

July 3 was the quiet afternoon that a deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy announced in a blog post that the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate would be delayed one year. Something about the "complexity of the requirements." ... Even if you are a liberal and support the goals of the Affordable Care Act, there has to be an emerging sense that maybe the law's theorists missed a signal from life outside the castle walls. While they troweled brick after brick into a 2,000-page law, the rest of the world was reshaping itself into smaller, more nimble units whose defining metaphor is the 140-character Twitter message (Daniel Henninger, 7/10).

12 Jul 2013

Researchers develop new cry analyzer to look for clues about baby's health

To parents, a baby's cry is a signal of hunger, pain, or discomfort. But to scientists, subtle acoustic features of a cry, many of them imperceptible to the human ear, can hold important information about a baby's health.

12 Jul 2013

Patients suffering from severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease can benefit from reconstructive surgery

For patients suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease - a surprisingly common neurological disorder that can cause the feet to become weak and contorted - surgery is considered a last resort. But for patients like Elissa Williams and her brother Kyle, surgery can bring an end to crippling pain and lead to active lives with feet facing forward and balanced on the ground.

12 Jul 2013

Scientists set out to develop safer versions of acetaminophen

Efforts to develop a safer form of acetaminophen - the pain and fever-reducer that is one of the most widely used drugs - have led to discovery of substances that may have less potentially toxic effects on the liver. A report on the research appears in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

12 Jul 2013

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Latest Pain News and Research

Adynxx receives FDA Fast Track designation for AYX1 Injection to treat chronic pain

International standard heart disease treatment offered at Vejthani Hospital Bangkok

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals enters into agreement to acquire Talon Therapeutics

Long-term cannabis use, dopamine and motivation: an interview with Dr Michael Bloomfield, Department of Medicine at Imperial

Progress made in understanding Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Cell therapies may stop or reverse pain and disability of degenerative disc disease

FDA accepts Iroko's submicron indomethacin NDA for treatment of acute pain in adults

UAB researchers study link between sleep and pain among patients with knee osteoarthritis

Furiex Pharmaceuticals enrolls patient for Phase III clinical trial of eluxadoline for treatment of diarrhea

Music decreases children's perceived sense of pain, say researchers

New study encourages pediatricians to treat the cause, not the symptoms

Protein complex may be an effective alternative to opioid pain medications

Actavis receives FDA approval for Opana ER tablets

UCL surgery shows excellent long-term outcomes in baseball players

Natural tissue graft can spur regeneration of cartilage; improves symptoms in knee cartilage damaged patients

UC Riverside study finds that married men are less likely to die of HIV/AIDS

Viewpoints: 'Implosion' of the ACA; Administration 'spin machine'; Republicans on 'search-and-destroy' mission

Researchers develop new cry analyzer to look for clues about baby's health

Patients suffering from severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease can benefit from reconstructive surgery

Scientists set out to develop safer versions of acetaminophen

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