News tagged with oxycodone
Oxycodone Effective Against Shingles Pain
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The painkiller oxycodone is effective at treating the acute pain of shingles, an illness that often causes severe pain which can become long-lasting and sometimes even permanent.
Mayo Clinic study suggests those who have chronic pain may need to assess vitamin D status
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic research shows a correlation between inadequate vitamin D levels and the amount of narcotic medication taken by patients who have chronic pain. This correlation is an important finding as researchers discover ...
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Medicinal products susceptible to 'dose dumping' should be fully tested
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" — releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients who have consumed ...
FDA: 'limited' benefit with tamper-proof OxyContin
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials say a new version of the painkiller OxyContin that is designed to be harder to abuse offers some improvements over the original pill.
FDA panel: Lower maximum daily dose of Tylenol
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin ...
FDA panel to vote on painkiller restrictions
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Government experts are scheduled to vote on whether Nyquil and other combination cold medications should be pulled from the market to help curb deadly overdoses.
FDA reversal OKs morphine painkiller for dying
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A liquid morphine painkiller given by family caregivers to dying patients can remain on the market, federal regulators have decided after hearing protests over their decision to remove it. The Food and Drug Administration ...
FDA cracks down on unapproved narcotic painkillers
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The government ordered 14 unapproved narcotic painkillers off the market Tuesday, prescription versions of potent morphine, hydromorphone and oxycodone. The Food and Drug Administration told nine manufacturers to ...
New guidelines for prescribing opioid pain drugs published
Feb 10, 2009 |
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A prestigious panel of pain-management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) www.ampainsoc.org and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive clinical practice guidel ...
Researchers look at cannabinoids, genes, medicines and brain scans to find better anxiety treatments
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Right now, about half of all people who take medicine for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti-anxiety ...
Drug poisoning growing cause of death
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Apr 04, 2008 |
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A government report said poisoning is the second-leading cause of injury death in the United States after motor vehicle accidents.
Opium and marijuana research go underground
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Oct 31, 2007 |
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The world’s leading expert on the opium poppy has joined forces with researchers working on another infamous drug-producing plant – cannabis – in hopes of finding new uses for the much-maligned sources of heroin and marijuana.
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