When is a Painkiller Not a Painkiller? A Patient's Right To Choose
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Linda MacDonald GlennPosted
Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:17pm
Most patients trust their doctors. If prescribed a treatment, therapy or drug, many would not question the necessity, or authenticity of the physician's advice or prescribing strategy.
Indeed. In a study published this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, of 466 physicians surveyed at medical schools in the Chicago-a ...
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FDA reversal OKs morphine painkiller – still ok for dying patients
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Medical QuackPosted
Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:47pm
If it were not available I would anticipate more visits to the ER with 911 calls for relief possible. The liquid form can be used by care givers with a few drops on the tongue to relieve pain. FDA is still looking at other pain killing drugs with their study. BD
(AP) -- A liquid morphine painkiller given by family caregivers to dying pati ...
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Las Vegas Entertainer Danny Gans Died Accidentally – Caused by Prescription Painkiller
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Medical QuackPosted
Wed 10 Jun 2009 4:54pm
When you read something like this, it really makes you think seriously about the potential of medical devices that maybe can help in some of these areas. BD
Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans' death was accidental, caused by a prescription painkiller, a coroner said Tuesday.
Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said an autopsy, toxicology an ...
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FDA Met with Painkiller Pharma Companies to Deal With Abuse To Develop Risk Management Plans
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Medical QuackPosted
Sat 30 Jan 2010 9:40pm
Wait a minute, don’t these same companies have business models to sell painkillers? As you can see pharma suggested more education, which is always a good thing and there has been talk along with one company submitting a reformulated version of a drug to the FDA for approval. Pharma no doubtedly will offer help and add suggestions, but don’t ...
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Pfizer Takes Painkiller Bextra Off Market
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MeredyPosted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 2:25pm
WASHINGTON - The painkiller Bextra was taken off the market Thursday, and the government wants other drugs in the same class to carry the strongest possible warnings about increased risk of heart attack and stroke among the millions of people who rely on them.
Pfizer Inc. suspended sales of Bextra in the United States and the European Union ...
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Painkillers and the FDA – Warnings and Other advisories
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Medical QuackPosted
Wed 01 Jul 2009 5:01pm
Acetaminophen is the newcomer to the FDA tracking list. The dosages of the painkiller were also reduced today. Also the panel was recommending something be done with Percocet and Vicodin. If those are abolished, perhaps others with some other potential side effects could play havoc. For short term pain relief, i.e. after surgery they seem to ...
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Painkillers increase risk of going deaf
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DeafBlogPosted
Mon 01 Mar 2010 3:20pm
Regularly popping painkillers such as paracetamol can significantly increase the danger of going deaf, new research has revealed.
Users of the three mainstream painkillers widely available over the counter from pharmacists – paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen – are all at risk of damaging their hearing.
Researchers fo ...
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Vitamin or Painkiller
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Roman M.Posted
Thu 10 Jul 2008 4:04pm
During the peak of the Dot-com bubble (read the 1998-2000) I was lucky enough to get to know a very energetic entrepreneur.Donna August, along with several partners, started a company called FreshWater Software. The company had a NASA like control center here in Boulder, Colorado.
It was a pretty wild room with dozens of massive monitors, to ...
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Common Painkiller Acetaminophen Linked to Asthma.
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Stephen TvedtenPosted
Wed 10 Mar 2010 12:00am
Common Painkiller Acetaminophen Linked to Asthma
http://www.naturalnews.com/028328_acetaminophen_asthma.html
The common painkiller acetaminophen may increase the risk of asthma and other allergies in both children and adults, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of British Columbia-Vancouver and published in the ...
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US FDA OKs new painkiller for cancer patients – Onsolis an Opiod Drug
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Medical QuackPosted
Thu 16 Jul 2009 11:05pm
Patients need to already be using an opioid pain medication around the clock. I thought these types of drugs were being scrutinized, but ok that cancer patients who need the relief can still get it. The medicine will be sent directly to a patient’s home though? Hopefully it may be return receipt requested as this is a heavily controlled subs ...
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