"Smokable" pain drugs promise faster action
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All self-respecting painkillers these days offer "fast-acting relief," a promise we accept to mean anywhere from 15 minutes to more than an hour.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved a drug for multiple sclerosis that works by a new mode of action and has shown early evidence of being more effective than existing drugs.
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12/21/04 -- It&#39;s the third largest pain relief drug in recent months to be linked with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Diabetes patients could soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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Effervescent aspirin, which dissolves in water, is as effective as the drugs sumatriptan or ibuprofen for the treatment of migraine attacks, a study in the journal Cephalalgia suggests.
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A key study of its lead drug proceeds faster than expected.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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The drug maker is poised to speed past its rivals.
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The finding raised hopes of developing novel drugs that would abolish pain by blocking the geneâs function.
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A top compound in development could become an important MS treatment.
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Millions of Americans have done just that. Thanks to them, a class of pain relievers called COX-2 inhibitors - Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, and Merck&#39;s Vioxx - have become blockbusters.
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A synthetic form of a sea-snail venom was approved yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration as a novel approach to treating severe, chronic pain.
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Early tests are raising hopes that a new device can help people who've injured their spinal cord.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb's new drug doesn't work better, but it's easier to take.
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Umbilical cord stem cells and a drug that facilitates their entry into the brain may be able to reduce stroke size and damage in humans.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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Implantable stimulators can blunt pain with electrical impulses, but they may come with negative side effects.