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A medical alert bracelet is a special bracelet worn by people who have serious medical condition, drug allergies, or other special needs.

While exporting drugs, India has millions suffering from pain Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 16:34 As a patient, Simha knows what opiates can do: the blessed relief from pain that cheap, simple drugs such as morphine can provide.

So Bill Manov, director of alcohol and drug services, "More teens boozing and toking," Sentinel, Oct.

Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of pharmacists and geriatric experts.

Hundreds of thousands of patients in India unnecessarily experience excruciating pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report today.

And numbness and tingling are hardly the worst symptoms of this highly variable condition, which involves damage to one or more of the myriad nerves outside the brain and spinal cord.

Before William Creed succumbs to cancer, he wants to know why his 27-year-old son died in 2006 while in the custody of officials at the Prince William County jail.

On Oct. 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical-marijuana users and distributors who comply with state laws, formalizing a policy at which the Obama Administration hinted earlier this year.

A German doctor has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of 13 cancer patients who died from suspected overdoses of pain-killing drugs.

On the first day of her trial in a courtroom in Hannover, a German doctor has denied killing her patients.

A German doctor dubbed the Angel of Death has denied killing 13 cancer patients, telling the first day of her trial that she wanted them to live out their remaining days in dignity.

Opioids and Opioid-Induced Constipation Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 20 Oct 2009 - 1:00 PDT Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc.

For the first time, a surgical robot has been used to perform minimally invasive reconstructive surgery on five children whose bladder was dysfunctional because they were born with spina bifida [incomplete formation of the spine or spinal cord]. Researchers who presented a study at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons ...

HYDERABAD: The recent amendment of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act is promising to deliver cancer patients from pain as it makes oral morphine accessible in the State.

An area of the spine called the dorsal horn works with the brain to activate the so-called placebo effect, German scientists said.

Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 16 Oct 2009 Parents and physicians alike want to know the best options for pain relief for children, especially following painful surgical procedures.

For the first time, a surgical robot has been used to perform minimally invasive reconstructive surgery on five children whose bladder was dysfunctional because they were born with spina bifida [incomplete formation of the spine or spinal cord]. Researchers who presented a study at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons ...

A federal judge has released from jail a nurse charged in the death of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center patient.

Dr. Diane Gromala leads a pain-management team. Photograph by: Stuart Davis, Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER a ' A virtual walk in the park may be just what the doctor ordered for chronic pain sufferers.

San Francisco, CA, October 12, 2009 -- Einstein, Newton, Edison, Beethoven, Caruso, and Churchill were all ADHD candidates.

Four years ago, Athina Alexandrakis lost her mother after what she claimed had been malpractice by doctors.

Prosecutors in the murder cases against Raynella Dossett Leath may not exhume the body of her first husband, a panel of the Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled.

Missouri is starting to get a reputation for gun goofiness. Earlier this year, the General Assembly seriously considered allowing concealed firearms on college campuses.

According to research conducted by Joan F. Epstein and Joseph C. Gfroerer on heroin abuse in the United States, "numerous reports have suggested a rise in heroin use in recent years, which has been attributed to young people who are smoking or sniffing rather than injecting.

Last time, I talked about how most pharmaceutical drugs work in only a minority of the people taking them, and how doctors have to juggle the drugs and the dosages to get a good result.

There was nothing wrong with the care given to a newborn baby who died in September of last year at Astrid Lindgren 's Children's Hospital, according to a report on the incident.

A WOMAN who died as her husband slept beside her suffered a fatal blood clot and - slipped away' in her sleep, an inquest heard.

With its trellises and rose bushes and frilly white trim, the house on Miranda Avenue sits neatly among its well-kept neighbors.

Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health ; Neurology / Neuroscience ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 28 Sep 2009 - 1:00 PDT Scientists at Georgia State University have uncovered the mechanisms of how pain in infancy alters how the brain processes pain in adulthood.