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The Mentalist (2.08) His Red Right Hand
Red John unleashes his evil upon those investigating him. "His Red Right Hand" The show opens with Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt sleeping together.
Paramedic charged with stealing drugs
Investigators say a paramedic stole potent pain relievers and replaced them with saline solution.
Women Target Of First Government Death Panel
She was a friend, a really good friend, who died much too soon. And if dying young wasna TMt tragic enough, she died a slow, agonizing death, in and out of consciousness for weeks, all the while begging for someone to stop the pain.
The depressed are more apt to get opioids for pain
People who suffer from depression are much more likely to be prescribed powerful opioid painkillers like morphine and codeine and to stay on the drugs long-term, new research shows.
Pain Drug Morphine May Accelerate Cancer Growth
Evidence is mounting that morphine, commonly used to manage pain, may accelerate cancer growth, but a newly-approved drug that blocks its side effects could also keep tumors from spreading, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth
Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells.
Trial begins for accused Air Force nurse
Lawyers for a military nurse charged with three counts of murder said they'll expose deficiencies at Wilford Hall Medical Center while proving their client is innocent.
Voluntary consent is neglected in the euthanasia debate
Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": Once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.
Cancer pain drug market to be $3.7 billion in 2018
Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, driven by the continued dominance of opioids that include immediate-release morphine and novel fast acting opioid reformulations, the cancer pain drug market will increase from $2.3 billion in 2008 to $3.7 billion in 2018 ...
Ex-Air Force nurse on trial for killing 3 patients
Attorneys for a former Air Force nurse charged with killing three elderly patients by giving them lethal doses of medication say it would be negligent to undertreat pain for the terminally sick in their final days.Capt. Michael Fontana faces three counts of murder when his military court martial begins Monday at Lackland Air Force Base.
Millennium Laboratories Announces Five Drug Screening Tests To...
Millennium Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and education to physicians and staff treating chronic pain patients, announced today the company's development and validation of a clinical quantitative assay for the new drug tapentadol by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry .
Filipina scientist wins P4.6-M prize for snail toxin work
Dr. Lourdes Cruz with her collection of marine snail shells. MANILA - A local scientist who helped discover a snail toxin a thousand times more powerful than morphine, was chosen as the first Filipino winner of the 2010 L'oral-UNESCO "For Women In Science Awards." Dr.
Convicted drug dealer arrested again
A convicted drug dealer was arrested again Wednesday for allegedly selling his prescribed pain medication.
I just get the feeling that every time I ask him, he's thinking, "Oh great, here we go again." Yet he always seems to begrudgingly come through.
Competitive Technologies Selects RF|Binder as Public Relations Agency of Record
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RF Binder Partners today announced that it has been engaged by Competitive Technologies, Inc.
Downtown Eastside addicts grow tired of fight for prescriptions
Vancouver resident Lee Wiebe knows what it's like to endure perpetual agony. Wiebe, who is on the board of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, suffers from chronic pain caused by an inflammatory arthritis known as ankylosing spondylitis.
Feds sue sex-assault doctor over drugs
A former Gardner doctor who coerced his sexual assault victims by illegally giving them morphine and intimate massages for common ailments such as sore throats and back pain is being sued in federal court.
New Help For Doctors In Combating H1N1
As the outbreak of H1N1 intensifies, there is a growing need for greater speed and accuracy in collecting specimens from patients for testing to determine with what they've been infected.
David Nutt's dangerous drug list
How harmful are the drugs on the list drawn up by the ousted government drugs adviser and his colleagues? Professor David Nutt was last week forced to resign from his role as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Colchester: T-Mobile 'just didn't care' about A 500 bill
A seriously injured man had his mobile phone stolen from hospital - " and was then stung for a A 500 bill racked up by the thief.
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