Flexible pain relief with morphine-free poppy
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A handful of genes in a morphine free poppy could hold the key to producing improved pain management pharmaceuticals. Norman, the âno-morphineâ poppy, is superior to morphine producing poppies as it produces
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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Purdue Pharma&#39;s Palladone (hydromorphone hydrochloride) for people requiring 24-hour pain relief for an extended period.
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Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is turned into most of the world's heroin and helps fuel the Taliban insurgency, should be used instead to make pain killers, the European Parliament said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - In a mouse model of breast cancer, the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex) prevents chronic morphine-induced effects on tumor growth without compromising pain relief, scientists report.
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NEW YORK  - Hormone suppression and diet therapy can relieve pain in women with endometriosis who undergo conservative therapy, according to a report in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
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NEW YORK  - Applying a topical anesthetic  half an hour beforehand reduces pain for children getting a  measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot, according to a report by  Canadian researchers.
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Doctors say patients timid about having surgeries for fear of pain shouldn't put it off: A new focus on patient comfort and advances in pain management are making many procedures nearly pain-free.
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The potential for harm reduces the uses of painkiller Fentora.
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Patients taking Vioxx for pain relief have many alternatives, and the popular drug's withdrawal from markets should have little practical effect on clinical care.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- A single-dose epidural injection called DepoDur is safe and effective in treating postoperative pain, according to two clinical trials.
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 29 : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a synthetic form of a sea-shell venom as a novel medicine to treat chronic pain.
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Fears about addiction and drug crime prevent millions of people from getting morphine, a drug that is cheap, effective and perfectly legal for medical uses in most countries.
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According to Dr. Mark Fendrick, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, the take-home message from the current scare over pain drugs is this: No matter
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The government approved on Tuesday a drug that offers a new way of fighting severe pain, an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.
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Australian scientists have discovered how a naturally morphine-free poppy blocks production of the narcotic, in a finding that could lead to the development of more effective drugs.
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Gene silencing can stop the opium poppy producing morphine and instead force it to produce large amounts of a compound useful in the fight against malaria.
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The government approved a drug Tuesday that offers a new way of fighting severe pain &#151; an option for patients who no longer benefit from morphine and other traditional pain medications.