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 PRINTABLE PAGE Treatment of Sickle Cell Pain By Karen F. Marlowe, Pharm.D., Michael F. Chicella, Pharm.D.Originally published in Pharmacotherapy 22(4):484-491, 2002 Abstract and Introduction Abstract Sickle cell disease affects 70,000 Americans who experience an average of 0.8 painful episodes each…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Medical Marijuana Crackdown Protested at DEA Offices By Todd Zwillich for Reuters HealthOriginally published by Reuters Health, June 6, 2002 WASHINGTON, DC (Reuters Health) — Activists criticizing the US government’s partial crackdown on the medical use of marijuana…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Marine Snail’s Toxin More Powerful Than Morphine By Nic RowanOriginally published by Reuters Health, July 12, 2002 MELBOURNE (Reuters Health) — Australian researchers have isolated a toxin from the cone shell, a type of a marine snail, that…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Aura-Related Brain Activity Triggers Trigeminal Axons, Leading to Migraine Originally published by Reuters Health, February 15, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Cortical spreading depression (CSD) associated with migraine aura activates trigeminal afferents to the meninges, which in…

 PRINTABLE PAGE California Justices Look at Medicinal Pot Rules By Mike McKeeOriginally published in The Recorder, June 5, 2002 After being arrested for possession and cultivation of marijuana in 1997, Myron Carlyle Mower, who smokes pot to ease the pain…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Pain, the Disease By Melanie ThernstromOriginally published in The New York Times Magazine, December 16, 2001 A modern chronicler of hell might look to the lives of chronic-pain patients for inspiration. Theirs is a special suffering, a separate…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Back Pain? Nerve Block May Not Help: Study By Kathleen DohenyOriginally published by Reuters Health, August 20, 2002 SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) — Nerve blocks, commonly given to patients with low back pain, don’t seem to reduce pain,…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Pain Less of a Sore Spot National standards are changing the treatment of physical suffering. By Nancy LunaOriginally published in The Orange County Register, February 24, 2002 Shortly after Scott Tingle turned 25, the pain began. An intense…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Chronic Migraine Linked to Hypothalamic Hormonal Dysfunction Originally published by Reuters Health, January 1, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — When episodic migraine becomes chronic migraine, hormone irregularities may be to blame, according to a report in the…

 PRINTABLE PAGE OHIP Considers Delisting Chronic Pain Therapies By Theresa Boyle, Queen’s Park BureauOriginally published in The Toronto Star, January 29, 2002 OHIP is considering dropping coverage for some pain-management therapies beginning in April, pain-management specialists warn. “We’ve been given…