Bad news on painkillers slows research
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The spate of bad news about painkillers has dealt a major setback to what had been a highly promising effort to use the drugs to prevent a host of leading killers, including many types of cancer, Alzheimer&#39;s disease and other forms of dementia.
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Painkillers taken by millions of  arthritis sufferers worldwide are actually of limited use in  relieving symptoms, Norwegian scientists said on Tuesday.
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Federal regulators urged doctors Thursday to think twice before prescribing several popular but controversial painkillers for patients with histories of heart trouble.
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Description: With new information coming out about the downsides of four popular pain relievers, consumers are facing the shortcomings of drug testing.
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News of the suspension of a study of the effects of two common pain relievers on elderly patients at risk of Alzheimer&#39;s disease evoked mixed reactions from area physicians and residents.
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Less than six weeks after Vioxx was pulled from pharmacy shelves because of evidence it increased a patient&#39;s risk of heart attack or stroke, some researchers are raising
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Recent reports of popular pain-relievers - Vioxx, Celebrex and Aleve - increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes have the nation in a panic.
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Two big government-funded studies on back surgery for painful herniated disks show no clear-cut reason to choose an operation over other treatment.
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Scientists are hunting new ways to help millions of pain sufferers &#151; from addiction-resistant narcotics to using brain scanners for biofeedback &#151; amid a worrisome rise in abuse of today's top prescription painkillers.
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The storm lashing big pharmaceutical companies over safety concerns about pain treatments such as Celebrex and Vioxx may actually blow some good in the direction of biotech stocks.
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The study is unlikely to end the increasingly charged debate about vaccine safety.
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New studies are raising questions about whether drugs that have been used by millions of cancer patients might actually be harming them.
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The furor over the safety of arthritis painkilling medications shows no sign of abating. Vioxx is gone from the market, following data linking it to increased cardiovascular risk.
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Federal regulators Thursday urged doctors to think twice before prescribing several popular and controversial painkillers to their patients with histories of heart trouble.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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Scientists and consumer groups say current patents are hindering research in a field that holds great medical promise.
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While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.