PRINTABLE PAGE Pain & Prejudice By Lenore SkenazyOriginally published in the New York Daily News, OPINION, February 26, 2002 A few weeks ago I wrote about my friend Joan not taking the painkillers she was prescribed because she was afraid…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Pfizer’s Warner-Lambert Probed on Neurontin Marketing Originally published by Reuters Health, March 14, 2002 NEW YORK — A former employee has accused drugmaker Warner-Lambert, acquired by Pfizer Inc. in 2000, of aggressively marketing the anticonvulsant Neurontin (gabapentin) to…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Italian Region Backs Medical Marijuana Originally published by Reuters Health, May 1, 2002 Lombardy, Italy (Reuters Health) — The council of Italy’s northern region of Lombardy approved on Tuesday a motion in favour of marijuana-based medicines, asking the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Scientists Find Key Pain Protein – Study By Gene EmeryOriginally published by Reuters Health, January 10, 2002 BOSTON (Reuters) — Researchers have identified a key protein that controls severe pain, a discovery that might someday allow more relief…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Cancer Patients Find Pain Relief Elusive: Studies Originally published by Reuters Health, June 7, 2002 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Cancer patients may be responsible for managing most of their pain at home, but they appear ill-equipped to…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Substance P: A New Era, a New Role By C. Lindsay DeVane, Pharm.D.Originally published in Pharmacotherapy 21(9):1061-1069, 2001 Abstract and Introduction Abstract Substance P has been extensively studied and is considered the prototypic neuropeptide of the more than…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Is Relief in Sight? By Jacob SullumSullum’s weekly Creators Syndicate column, originally published in Reason magazine, January 2, 2001 “No patient should ever wish for death because of his physician’s reluctance to use adequate amounts of potent narcotics.”…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Pain and Pleasure Share Similar Neural Pathway Originally published by Reuters Health, December 6, 2001 WESTPORT, CT — Scientists have discovered that the brain’s response to pain appears to follow a pathway similar to that of the pleasure…
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PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Free’ Morphine in India Not Available to Many Who Need It Originally published by Reuters Health, March 12, 2002 NEW DELHI — While oral morphine is available at no cost to cancer patients in India, the vast majority…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Hurting More, Helped Less? By Nancy WartikOriginally published in The New York Times, June 22, 2002 Dr. Christine Miaskowski still remembers the patient, a woman in her 50’s, who visited the pain management service at the Albert Einstein…