New Vioxx Data’s In 
Forbes - Aug 23 1:43 PM
Merck’s study for data for experimental arthritis treatment Arcoxia, a Vioxx successor, shows mixed results.Save to My Web

Glaxo inks $1.5 billion deal 
Reuters.co.uk - Aug 24 8:23 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has signed a drug discovery deal with U.S. biotech firm ChemoCentryx, potentially worth up to $1.5 billion (792 million pounds) in milestone payments and research funding to the privately owned group.Save to My Web

Second chance 
Times Online - Aug 24 5:01 AM
The discovery by American resear-chers of a means to harvest stem cells without destroying the embryo from which they are taken is of enormous importance.Save to My Web

Calendar 
Baltimore Sun - 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Events, screenings, support groups and more Save to My Web

Arthritis sufferers report improvements after drug trial 
ABC via Yahoo!7 News - Aug 22 8:21 PM
Results of a clinical trial show a drug designed in Australia may offer hope for patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Save to My Web

Abilene Zoo offers chill pill for stressed-out pachyderm 
WALB News 10 - Aug 24 9:11 AM
ABILENE, Texas Confronting a complicated world can make each day an ordeal — especially during a searing Texas summer.Save to My Web

Going the Distance: Walkathons Help Others and You
WHO-TV - It’s more like overuse, heel pain, arch pain, and tendonitis. They’re so common.” Training helps Whether you’re signing New England Journal of Medicine. 2002 Sept. 5;347(10):716-25. 3. Chambliss, H.O. Exercise duration and intensity in a weight

Pain and redemption
Baltimore Sun - Two years after receiving probation for phoning in a fake prescription for hydrocodone - and admitting an addiction to narcotic pain medicine - he was arrested for something that sounded like it came straight out of an Elmore Leonard novel. This time

Migraine Headaches
Warren Tribune Chronicle - your doctor prescribes, the medicines can even start to cause a condition called rebound headaches. With this condition, your medicines stop helping your pain and actually begin to cause headaches. Talk with your doctor if the amount of medicine

How to prevent back pain
Lexington Herald-Leader - At least 25 percent of Americans suffer from back pain, according to recent national surveys. Many have strained muscles or ligaments. Others have damaged nerves, bones or discs. Don’t expect medicine to bail you out after you get hurt. Instead, take

Results Mixed on New Merck Pain Medicine
MSN MoneyCentral - NEW YORK (AP) - Merck & Co. said Wednesday that a preliminary analysis of trial data shows its successor drug to Vioxx didn’t increase patients’ risk of a cardiovascular events when compared with a traditional pain reliever, but that more people

Physician extols the healing power of prayer
Catholic Online - Seventy-five percent believe that miracles are occurring in medicine today. Fifty-five percent have seen the results of such The albatross of headache pain continued to be a growing burden. Finally, as he doggedly searched for a cure, Dossey

Lawyer: judge vacates Merck Vioxx win
Philadelphia Inquirer - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A state judge on Thursday threw out a victory for Merck & Co. and ordered a new trial for a postal worker who blamed his heart attack on taking the company’s Vioxx pain medicine for two months, the man’s lawyer said. Superior

Study: Video Games Help With Pain Tolerance
I4U - Aug 23, 2006… the glass at least 400% longer, meaning that video games actually help to ease the pain. There are actually some hospitals that pipe medicine like anesthesia …

Physician extols the healing power of prayer
Catholic Online, CA - 2 hours ago… His research and writing have made a major impact on the field of medicine. … to die, in order to spare him days or weeks of agony, when pain medications no …

GLENN ELLIS STRATEGIES FOR WELL BEING: Back to School and Asthma
Eurweb.com, CA - 9 hours ago… Not only does asthma keep children in fear and pain it keeps them out … Modern medicine, diet, lifestyle modifications and other factors can make a difference …

Alternative medicine offered
Newszap Arizona, AZ - Aug 22, 2006… to cancer; cardiology; pain and wound and neurology and headache treatment. I m excited, said Mrs. Lund, a strong advocate of holistic medicine. …

Judge Tosses Verdict Favoring Merck
WTOP, D.C. - Aug 17, 2006… favor of Merck & Co. and ordered a new trial for a postal worker who blamed his heart attack on the company’s Vioxx pain medicine. …

Merck says disagrees on ruling for new Vioxx trial
Reuters - Aug 17, 2006… with a New Jersey state judge’s decision to set aside a November 2005 jury verdict in the company’s favor involving its withdrawn Vioxx pain medicine. …

Less Anxious Kids Recover Faster From Surgery
All Headline News - 18 hours agoA research team led by Zeev Kain from the Yale School of Medicine looked at … unit at Yale after surgery and were monitored for post-operative pain and analgesic …

Ruth O. (Bush) Haughey, 91
1960 Sun - Services will be held private at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the Arthritis Foundation at www.arthritis.org. Arrangements are by the Campbell-Ennis-Klotzbach Funeral Home Inc

Information On: e-Publications
MedicineNet.com - Attitudes and Impacts Who has Hypertension? Coping with GERD Erectile Dysfunction (ED): Out of the Shadows and into the Medical Mainstream Arthritis Pain Management after Merck’s Withdrawal of Vioxx Health Concerns and Weight Management Holiday Depression

With 100 different types of arthritis available, it’s handy
Daily Times - For readers who must tolerate the pain and discomfort of arthritis, it might be interesting to know you are not alone. In a recent bulletin, the Harvard Medical School reported there are more than 100 different types of arthritis. They all have one

Foothill Fitness celebrates 1 year helping adults stay active
Amador Ledger-Dispatcher - In particular, strength-training or resistive exercises halt bone loss, restore muscle mass and strength, improve balance and flexibility, relieve arthritis symptoms, lift depression, aid sleep, help control weight and improve sense of well being. The

Tests Could Provide New Types Of Knee Repair
KPHO - But if they truly work, the techniques one day might offer hope for arthritis sufferers, too, whose cartilage over time completely erodes. Most eagerly anticipated: the first clinical trial using stem cells from donated bone marrow to try to

Elephants do run, study concludes
MSNBC - Who knows, they may even reveal clues about the links between obesity and arthritis.” In robotics , the elephant locomotion could be used as a model for building giant legged vehicles that move as economically as these large animals. This research

Information On: e-Publications
MedicineNet.com - Attitudes and Impacts Who has Hypertension? Coping with GERD Erectile Dysfunction (ED): Out of the Shadows and into the Medical Mainstream Arthritis Pain Management after Merck’s Withdrawal of Vioxx Health Concerns and Weight Management Holiday Depression

Judge to Bonds’ trainer: Testify or jail
Biloxi Sun Herald - In 2003, Bonds reportedly testified to the grand jury investigating BALCO that he believed the substances were flaxseed oil and arthritis balm, not steroids. Anderson also could offer insight into the doping calendars bearing Bonds’ name that were

East Peoria man turns backyard into a habitat for purple martins
Courier News - Fiedler’s hands are wracked with arthritis. He’s hardly going gently into the good night, though. As of a few weeks ago, he’d already planted 700 tomatoes and had most of the rest of a two-acre garden planted. The spectacle of the martins never bores

BioScrip Implements $7.5 Million Annualized Cost Savings
Phramalive.com - medication distribution capabilities include condition-specific clinical management programs tailored to improve the care of individuals with complex health conditions such as HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Infusion IVIG, Hepatitis C, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Swiss Medica Announces Caribbean Distribution Deal for O24
PrimeZone - CIO is hoping to fight crippling diseases like Osteoarthritis/Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia in the most natural way and we have found that there is no better way to relieve chronic pain than to use Swiss Medica’s O24 Pain Neutralizer. Swiss

Scientists stop autoimmune disease without shutting off immune system
EurekAlert - There are a number of companies developing inhibitors of the p38 enzyme for treating rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis,” Rubenstein said. “Our study suggests that those same drugs might be valuable in treating pemphigus vulgaris.” Of the 48 mice

Study: Being even a little overweight may shorten life
USA Today - and figure out how they can eat less and move more.” Currently, two-thirds of adults in the U.S., about 136 million people, are overweight or obese. Those extra pounds raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, arthritis and

EXCLUSIVE He wouldn’t believe her denials in row
Sunday Mirror, UK - Aug 19, 2006… University Hospital. He is refusing pain medication and yelled: “I want to die,” when told his son was dead. Hogan’s mum Josephine …

Bautista bout goes bust
SaddoBoxing.com - 18 hours ago… Bautista was reportedly shadow boxing when he felt a snap and then pain.. … the ALA Gym prior to leaving for Los Angeles but quickly recovered after medication. …

Stop the pounding
Press-Enterprise (subscription), CA - Aug 21, 2006… Science is looking at remedies, from magnets to medication. … of the blood vessels or covering of the brain — which brings on telltale pulsating pain and other …

HOW COULD HE?
Mirror.co.uk, UK - Aug 18, 2006… He is refusing pain medication and is constantly talking of wanting to die. We’re keeping watch to make sure he can’t harm himself.”. …

Cancer patients without pain relief medication
Fijivillage, Fiji - 3 hours ago… She said the hospitals do not have enough pain relieving medicine such as morphine while others who have to buy expensive drugs, or travel overseas for …

Chronic Pain: The Next Level
Blogcritics.org, OH - Aug 7, 2006… I have to take more and more “breakthrough” pain medication because it is peaking beyond levels that allow me to rest comfortably for any period of time. …

Sickness in state health
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia - 14 hours ago… She cannot walk, and is racked by so much pain she requires painkilling medication every four hours. The medication causes nausea. …

Australian Govt Approves Herceptin Funding 
Scoop.co.nz - 39 minutes ago
Roche New Zealand notes that both the Australian Government and the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have approved funding for Herceptin for 12 months for women with early stage HER 2 positive breast cancer within the last 24 hours.Save to My Web

Chronic Pain Treatments for TMJ, RSI, and Sports Related Injuries Are Finally Being Brought to the Internet at  
[Press Release] PR Web - Aug 21 12:12 AM
This new approach has been used to develop products that are the first-of-their-kind, each specifically developed to relieve a different type of pain. (PRWEB Aug 21, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/SW5zZS1DcmFzLVBpZ2ctVGhpci1JbnNlLVplcm8=Save to My Web

Hospital welcomes sports medicine clinic 
Wise County Messenger - Aug 22 4:01 PM
Wise Regional Health System has officially opened the Fit-N-Wise Sports Medicine Clinic to help individuals who suffer from recurrent disorders or acute injuries involving the bones, joints, spine or muscles. The clinic celebrated its opening at an Aug. 9 ribbon cutting ceremony.Save to My Web

Entrepreneur Teams Up with University to Create Sports Drink 
Newswise - Aug 22 1:24 PM
An ex-Wall Streeter has teamed up with Cornell food scientists to create Cherrypharm — a tart cherry sports drink promoted for its restorative and preventative properties. Among the first customers: the New York Rangers.Save to My Web

Making Health Care the Engine That Drives the Economy 
New York Times - Aug 21 7:05 PM
The U.S. already spends nearly 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care and it is almost impossible to know where all that money goes.Save to My Web

Farewell noxious nasal spray. Hello chicken dansak with poppadums 
Times Online - Aug 22 4:37 PM
CURRY MAY BE good for migraine. How could we not be cheered by this breaking medical news story?Save to My Web

The best medicine 
Orange County Register - Aug 22 9:53 AM
“Comedy in Recovery” has stand-ups performing for recovering alcoholics and addicts in a show that benefits both those in the audience and onstage.Save to My Web

Judge Vacates Merck Jury Win in N.J. 
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Aug 17 11:58 AM
A state judge threw out a victory for Merck & Co. on Thursday and ordered a new trial for a postal worker who blamed his heart attack on taking the company’s Vioxx pain medicine for two months, the man’s lawyer said.Save to My Web

Bed-ridden woman thankful for help from Second Baptist mission project 
Lancaster News - Aug 20 6:23 AM
Rosemary Jones of Lancaster doesn’t know who informed a home mission project at the Second Baptist Church of her needs, but she is grateful for the good Samaritan.Save to My Web

Merck hit by double setback over Vioxx 
AAP via Yahoo!7 News - Aug 17 2:26 PM
Merck & Co has suffered a setback when a US federal jury awarded $US51 million ($A66.46 million) to a former user of its withdrawn pain medicine Vioxx.Save to My Web

Tainted crabs blamed as cause of rare lung infection 
Contra Costa Times - Aug 20 3:16 AM
After two Orange County residents came down with a rare lung infection, public health officials warned Californians against eating raw or undercooked freshwater sawagani crabs.Save to My Web

State judge vacates jury win for Merck in Vioxx case 
phillyburbs.com - Aug 17 1:15 PM
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A state judge on Thursday vacated a jury win for Merck & Co. and ordered a new trial for a postal worker who blamed his heart attack on taking the company’s Vioxx pain medicine for two months, the man’s lawyer said.Save to My Web

Travelers Are Urged to Minimize Risk of Disease 
RedNova - Aug 20 11:14 AM
By Stephanie Beasley The Baltimore Sun If you have an international trip in your future, you might have been warned about the usual suspects when it comes to dangerous diseases — malaria, hepatitis, typhoid and yellow fever.Save to My Web

ORLive Presents: Total Knee Replacement — A Surgical Procedure to Eliminate Pain, Improve motion, and Minimize Wear  
SYS-CON Media - Aug 18 4:51 PM
Our Lady of the Lake Regional MedicalCenter will broadcast a total knee replacement surgery live atwww.OR-Live.com on September 21, 2006 at 6:00 pm CDT (23:00 UTC).Save to My Web

For MS victim, prescribed marijuana eases pain, suffering
North Adams Transcript - when he thinks about dear friends who struggled through their last hours on a hospital bed, contorted, and their “medication When smoked, marijuana eases Tucci’s pain, he said, and also restores his hunger after his appetite is killed from a

Small Company Creates Big Business Thanks To Hot Peppers
dBusinessNews.com - shown Capsaicin to be a powerful natural medicine, it was only used in Arthritis pain creams until SiCap Industries came along. SiCap was the first pharmaceutical manufacturer to package Capsaicin for internal use as an over the counter medication.

Tales from the scales
San Luis Obispo Tribune - Unable to work, she felt depressed, and she was taking pain medication. Even with a master s degree in public health nutrition, Roberts was unable to keep herself slim. “Even though I knew what I should be doing, I wasn t doing it,” she said. Roberts

COX-2 Inhibitors: What You Need to Know
KOLD-TV - Additionally, pain medication that’s applied directly to the pain site, including lidocaine patches and capsaicin ointment, may also help with arthritis pain, as can several antidepressants, particularly if you also have pinched nerves. Plus

Pickup was going 5 mph when it hit concrete panel
Lexington Herald-Leader - At the time of the accident, Jones was taking oxycodone, a narcotic drug, to treat pain. She told officers that she had last taken the prescription medication at 7 the night before but hadn’t taken any before going to work that morning. The drug

TV Eases Pain–But Causes It, Too
MediaPost - It’s sort of hard to take these studies too seriously–especially if real pain is around, and real medication is needed beyond those moments of TV viewing. Does someone really think, when kids or anyone else is in pain, it’s time to turn on the TV

States Urged to Boost Inspections of Abortion Clinics
CNS News - The woman was given medication to take at home to initiate the abortion. She called the clinic, complaining of pain and bleeding, then “took her dead baby and went to the emergency room for treatment,” the Liberty Counsel said. “We have received

Tony Winner McKechnie Schedules “Time Steps” Book Signings
Playbill - McKechnie dedicates her book, which candidly chronicles her life in and out of show business as well as her victorious battle with arthritis, to her sister Barbara, her brother Ron and to the memory of her parents, Carolyn Ruth and Donald Bruce

Time to prepare arms for playoff grind
Newsday - The arthritis in his right big toe has been an issue since he signed with the Mets, and his hurting hip, which required a cortisone shot back in mid-May, was a lingering problem before it landed him on the disabled list for a month. Now that his right

Renal Disease Deaths Down, Vascular-Related Deaths up in Lupus
Medscape News - However, risk of death from circulatory-related complications may be on the rise, researchers report in the August issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism. Drs. Sasha Bernatsky and Ann Clarke of McGill University in Montreal, Canada and colleagues in the

Gastric bypass surgery helped father and daughter shed 380 pounds
Wisconsin State Journal - She works two part-time jobs at local food shops, though juvenile rheumatoid arthritis still limits her activity. She fits into a size 12 or 14, no longer a size 28, and she drives a little red convertible. Asked the best parts of her new life, she

OMC Weekend Preview: Aug. 18-20, 2006
On Milwaukee - ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION’S RUN / WALK TO IRISH FEST Come to Irish Fest on Sunday to support the 1.1 million children and adults living with arthritis in Wisconsin. It’s a fun run and walk and the finish line is Irish Fest! Get free admission to Irish

Insect Bites And Stings
WHO-TV - Those diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and certain types of leukemia, according to published reports. Within 90 minutes of receiving a single intravenous dose of the drug, all six volunteers experienced headache, muscle aches

ON DECK
Clovis Independent - 2006 Arthritis Walk 8 a.m. Sept. 9 at Woodward Park. Registration begins at 7 a.m. To get involved or form a walk team, visit www.arthritis.org . Details: 325-1900. 2006 Fresno Cross City Race Sept. 10 in downtown Fresno. New this year in the