Wade leaning toward return 
Orlando Sentinel - Feb 27 3:45 PM
Heat guard Dwyane Wade gave a strong indication Tuesday that he plans to return from his dislocated left shoulder before the end of the season. Save

Fulfillment by filling drugs 
The San Angelo Standard-Times - Feb 27 12:36 AM
Pharmacist Doug Chadwick realized how fulfilling his job is while treating a hospice patient who had gangrene in both hands. The patient was taking a high daily dosage of morphine but was still in pain. Chadwick suggested a ketamine nasal spray, which proved to be effective and considerably less expensive.Save

Pleasing Plant Life 
RedNova - Feb 27 6:05 PM
By Charlotte Tucker, York Daily Record, Pa. Feb. 25–When George E. Sanders told his co-workers at Lion Technologies he was going to make lemonade from the lemon tree in one corner of the office, they were skeptical.Save

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KKCO Grand Junction - Feb 27 5:01 PM
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Methadone abuse is growing 
EARTHtimes.org - Feb 25 10:40 PM
Methadone, used extensively to treat heroin addicts, is increasingly being prescribed as pain medication and abused by drug users, the Los Angeles Times said.Save

Doctor admits selling painkillers for cash 
Honolulu Advertiser - Feb 24 5:01 AM
Dr. Kachun C. Yeung pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of prescribing the powerful pain medication Oxycodone “outside the course of professional medical practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose.”Save

Caregiving: Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger — 4 
UPI - Feb 27 12:35 PM
Dear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger:Save

Lupus May Account For Smith’s Drugs
Playfuls - Pregnancy combined with lupus, however, could present severe pain, according to the expert contacted by “Access Hollywood.” Bob Lahita, a physician and professor of medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School, said about 60 percent of lupus patients

Diabetes case tied to growth hormone “doping”
Reuters UK - enhance their performance risk developing diabetes, two doctors from the UK warn in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The problem came to light when a 36-year-old professional body-builder was treated for chest pain in the emergency

Bored to Death: Chronically Bored People Exhibit Higher Risk-Taking
Scientific American - Danckert theorizes that the massive flux of endorphins or pain medication necessary for recovery from a brain injury may have literally raised these patients’ threshold for psychological pleasure and reward. “Now instead of a coffee doing it for you

‘I was entirely alone’
Guardian Unlimited - Sarah Ebner: just how safe and effective is complementary medicine? OFT says NHS paying too much for drugs TV-watching by infants I focused my eyes on the dull blue carpet, getting nearer then further, nearer then further, trying to ignore the pain

Ibuprofen beats acetaminophen for period pain
CNN - NEW YORK (Reuters) — Although both ibuprofen and acetaminophen reduce menstrual pain, ibuprofen appears to have more potent effects, according to investigators from the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown. Although ibuprofen is

Painkillers linked to greater risk of heart attacks
Guardian Unlimited - The findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reiterate a 2002 study which found that commonly-used painkillers raise blood pressure in women. More than five million Britons, including those suffering back pain, migraine or

Are you having a heart attack?
Bridgeton News - How do you know when chest pain means (A) you’re having a heart attack or (B) you’ve got heartburn? At least half of the 6 feel bad, or they’re having an off day,” said cardiologist Frank Smart, chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine

One more for the road 
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
It seemed like a good idea at the time — to let my 14-year-old son take a friend along on our summer vacation.Save

GelStat Migraine to Be Placed in Mail Order Catalogs Distributed to Ten Million Households in April of 2007 
SYS-CON Media - Feb 26 8:59 AM
GelStat Corporation (PINKSHEETS: GSAC), aconsumer healthcare company primarily focused on the development andmarketing of over-the-counter (OTC) products for the safe and effectivetreatment of pain and inflammation, is announcing that its patentedmigraine treatment ‘GelStat(TM)Migrane’ has been selected to be included intwo mail order catalogs that will be sent to approximately ten …Save

Heart association urges no pain-med use at first 
The Plain Dealer - 51 minutes ago
Doctors treating people for chronic pain should avoid using all medications - at least at first - the American Heart Association advised Monday in guidelines designed to have a significant impact on the use of medications known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs.Save

By Katie Leslie News-Post Staff 
The Frederick News-Post - Feb 26 11:05 PM
FREDERICK —-Marleen Fleeman can’t begin to measure the toll 30 years of constant back pain have taken on her life.Save

N.Y. Can?t Limit Ferry Crash Damages, Judge Says 
New York Times - Feb 26 11:21 AM
A federal judge ruled today that the city is fully liable for damages in the 2003 crash of the State Island ferry.Save

MISUSING PRESCRIPTIONS: Rx drug abuse and its human toll 
The Charlotte Observer - Feb 27 12:11 AM
After 26 years of marriage, Susan felt like she didn’t even know her husband anymore.Save

Dealers, family biggest sources of illegal prescription painkillers 
Asbury Park Press - Feb 27 1:42 AM
Despite media reports of addicts getting prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin from the Internet, most of them are actually getting these drugs from family, friends or dealers, a new study finds.Save

FDA Approves Cymbalta(R) for Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
MSN MoneyCentral - is already approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder and management of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain Psychiatry in Medicine. Vol. 27 (2), 1997, pp. 93-105 (4)Bymaster, FP et al. “The Dual Transporter Inhibitor Duloxetine: A

Poison s not just under the sink
Nashua Telegraph - Some don t manage their medicine and become addicts, she said, adding that a major issue in the state is abuse of methadone, a drug used for pain management that is diverted and abused. Heinen said methadone administered at clinics to treat

VA Researcher Finds Way To Identify Which Men Need A Second Biopsy
Medical News Today - at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, assistant professor of surgery (urology) in the OHSU School of Medicine, and Prostate biopsies can cause patient anxiety, pain, bleeding and infection, and can lead to a significant increase in

Should I go to a health clinic in a mall or drug store ?
Boston Globe - Do not use one of these clinics if you have new major symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or leg swelling (a An article that ran last week in The New England Journal of Medicine touted the potential benefits of retail health shops

Spirit still soars from Eagle’s fallen father
Coloradoan - As the pain of a tragedy melted away during the past year, Ryan was able to find great meaning in how and why his father When Bill died, Ryan and Tara took his ashes to Medicine Hat, Alberta, and scattered some at a family plot where their

Art exhibition gives pain patients a way to make their experience
Irish Medical News - More than 150 GPs from across Ireland were among the first people to see the Portraits of Pain exhibition that is intended to give neuropathic pain patients a new voice when trying to make their experience understood. Director of Pain Medicine at

Ten years of the wrong medicine
Daily Telegraph - Ten years of the wrong medicine Why then are patients in pain being kept waiting for six months for the procedures they need? Purely, it seems, for

Health Corner
Egypt Today - Even in tension headache (the most common form of headache, characterized by pain in the head and scalp), dehydration or The medicine does not enter your stomach, it has no nutritive value, and it s medically necessary so it doesn t break the

Kolkata man tested positive for chikungunya
New Kerala - KMC will collect blood from Shakil Khan again and send it for tests at the School of Tropical Medicine (STM) here. KMC sources, however, said the health officials who visited Khan’s home have found Shakil had no fever or pain now. “The initial test was

Expert Advises Women: Don’t Despair If AHA 2007 Guidelines Seem Too
Medical News Today - 90 minutes of daily exercise is not possible, try 10- to 15- minute segments,” said Sanagala, assistant professor of medicine Even more confusing is the fact that symptoms such as excessive sweating, nausea and pain of the shoulder, jaw or back are

Health Tip: Symptoms of Staph Infection
Forbes - National Library of Medicine: A swollen, red, and sore area on the skin that may drain pus or other fluid. A warm feeling around the infected area. Fever, chills, headache, and muscle aches. Pain in the chest. Fatigue. General feeling of sickness. If you

Market confirms ace coach’s true value
Chicago Sun-Times - But this wasn’t about pain. It was about shock. Wade, the hardworking guard from the tough part of Chicago, the poor Lori Arviso Alvord, a Navajo surgeon and associate dean at the Dartmouth School of Medicine? The point is, you probably haven

Deaths up as more mix drugs
Akron Beacon Journal - The system also requires tracking prescriptions for carisoprodol (Soma, a muscle relaxant) and tramadol (Ultram, a pain medication). “You can go in and find any prescription that any patient has had for any controlled substance,” Peshek said.

REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Robotic-Assisted Hysterectomy for
MSN MoneyCentral - Post-operative pain is dramatically reduced, since none of our patients required IV pain medication, and most required only minimal pain meds for the first two post-operative days. Average blood loss was minimal (only 63 cc), and nearly half of

Accidental Mix of Prescription Drugs Killed Gerald Levert
BlackNews.com - Andy Gibson, a family spokesman, said Levert was taking the pain medication because of chronic pain from a lingering shoulder problem and surgery in 2005 to repair a

Home neutering leads to 2 fines
Maui News - She said the owner reported the cat wasn t given pain medication or anesthesia for the procedure, which took about 20 minutes. Hair was missing from the cat s limbs, which had been duct-taped to a board to keep the animal from biting while its

Regular dental care is not just for humans
Canton Repository - Lola Efaw of Akron said her Snuggles took pain medication weekly and went through a series of injections to relieve the disease, but the treatment didn’t work. Dr. Kristine Rook of the Green Animal Medical Center removed Snuggles’ teeth in an

‘Mommy, call 911′
Cincinnati Enquirer - She’d push herself further than she should, recently bowling an entire 10 frames with her little sister’s Brownie troop, pausing twice to meditate and take pain medication. She knew another pain, too. She saw how cruel others could be - people would

Lawyer: Doc’s treatment of Smith ’sound’
Associated Press - advised to not use any kind of medication without consulting their doctors. Methadone is a narcotic painkiller that is used as part of heroin addiction detoxification and maintenance programs, and is also increasingly being used for treatment of pain

When handheld devices help settle disputes
Financial Express - doctor s office complaining about stomach pains when she dismissed his suggestion that they were a side effect of medication bar, they complained that the technology was still too slow to really be that useful in settling disputes. It is a pain

Silence still equals death Gay
Washington Blade - It can range from mild tingling to pain so extreme that, as writer and AIDS activist Phil Alden puts it, It can feel to consistently take their medications than those not using marijuana and it s well established that better HIV medication

Day 1 dashes, delivers dreams
Monroe Times - The medical staff diagnosed the injury as a separated shoulder and, even with the assistance of pain medication, deemed Judd’s chances of continuing bleak. Judd’s coach Isaac Campbell and teammate Chad Crull both reminded Judd of the silver lining

One Woman’s World
American Reporter - I am not a doctor and I would never tell anyone to take, or not to take, any medication. What I am saying is that I despise The price of our American pursue-pleasure, avoid-pain attitude comes at the expense of our creative ability to resolve

Impulse control problems?
Health 24 - If your behaviour is causing you any pain or guilt, interfering in your relationships, your work performance or your daily A number of options are available, from medication to counselling to support groups. The Depression and Anxiety Support Group

Mourning Levert spearheads son’s last album
CNN - But the tears still flow, and the pain still remains. It’s been three months since Gerald Levert, just 40 years old, was the fiery singer, best known for passionate love songs, died accidentally from a lethal mixture of over-the-counter medication

Dangers of Overdosing
WXOW TV-19 - The most common are prescription pain medications. Dean Whiteway, a doctor at Gunderson Lutheran, and Sgt. Cary Joholski Either intentionally diverted for profit or just as often taken out of someones medicine chest at home. They’re less tuned in

FDA’s ruling on quinine use upsets a leg-cramp sufferer
South Coast Today - I am thrilled, but I have noticed pain in my legs. It is difficult to sleep as I massage them to make them feel better. The Your physician may prescribe another kind of medicine or even suggest a vacuum device that might help you maintain your erection

Free at last
Georgian Messenger - was only after three months that my eyesight returned, but the pain in my hands was still very strong. In the pre-trial detention cell, I didn’t see a doctor at all. In the internal affairs’ cell, there was a medicine

This is no way to treat a wounded warrior: Walter Reed Hospital s
Boston Herald - His fellow soldiers said he described the pain as intolerable after his first surgery, but that he was more concerned know that today s injured soldiers are dealing with far more horrific injuries than in the past because battlefield medicine

Tartan center rehabbed his knee for 3 1/2 years to skate again
Lexington Herald-Leader - It is apt that Merth, a senior center for Tartan High School in Oakdale, aspires to a livelihood in sports medicine because he He was able to play part of his junior season wearing a knee brace, but the pain was excruciating. Moreover, his second

PHK finds itself on the small screen as feature of That’s Gotta
Terrell Tribune - room one morning in October 2000 because he thought he swallowed something that was causing an irritating, scratchy pain in his esophagus. Preliminary X-rays revealed nothing. After further investigation, Dr. Jeremy Chester, an emergency medicine

Topic: I can t cope anymore .
Raising Kids - I’ve had two operations on it and now I’ve been told I have osteo arthritis and need a reconstruction thats going to happen in the summer I can’t imagine how I’m going to manage! It’s a serious recovery programme. I just want to stop feeling

Entelos Announces Continued Research with Pfizer
Forbes - addition to internal programs, Entelos partners with global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and currently provides scientific expertise and models in such areas as cardiovascular disease, asthma, obesity, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis

OAP s fury as rain pours into home
This is Trowbridge - Her furniture is damaged and the walls are permanently damp, which she says is making her arthritis worse. But Wiltshire County Council, which maintains roads, denies the problem is its responsibility and says tests show the water is not running off

Neck arthritis stalls Duque
Newsday - PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The Mets can say they are not concerned about the age of their starting rotation, but after Orlando Hernandez was diagnosed yesterday with arthritis at the base of his neck, it is not so easy to ignore. Hernandez complained of

El Duque has arthritis in neck
FOXSports.com - PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (AP) - New York Mets pitcher Orlando Hernandez has arthritis in his neck and will be sidelined for three or four days after receiving a cortisone shot. El Duque, slated to be the No. 2 starter behind Tom Glavine in the Mets

Emirates Arthritis Foundation to organise seminar for UAE patients
Middle East Medical (Bahrain) - The Emirates Arthritis Foundation, launched in April 2006 by the Dubai Bone and Joint Center, under the patronage of Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE, Ruler of

Pedto to find out when he can throw
ESPN.com - Without him, the Mets’ rotation is led by Tom Glavine , who turns 41 next month, and 41-year-old Orlando Hernandez , who has arthritis in his neck and will be sidelined for several days after receiving a cortisone shot. Prospects Mike Pelfrey , Philip

Students Hospitalized After Apparent Overdose 
CBS 2 Chicago - Feb 22 3:14 PM
Two students at Bartlett high school were rushed to the hospital today after they apparently overdosed on a common cold medication. CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports.Save

Spring Training: Nady checks out of hospital 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Feb 22 9:34 PM
BRADENTON, Fla. — Twice in a nine-month span, Xavier Nady has been hospitalized for trouble in his stomach area. And it is seems evident that he was quite lucky on each occasion.Save

Medical Breakthrough — C-Sections: Should You Choose? 
WQAD Moline - Feb 21 2:58 PM
There are a number of reasons women delivery their babies through c-section — and fewer and fewer of those reasons have anything to do with medical necessity.Save

Girl, 5, killed in parade, was younger than entry age requirement 
KTVK Phoenix - Feb 22 4:52 PM
A 5-year-old girl died after police say she was thrown from her horse this morning during the Rodeo Parade. A team of horses pulling a wagon behind the girl spooked then ran into her horse and she fell off, said Sgt. Decio Hopffer a Tucson Police Department spokesman.Save

Climbers, leave your dogs at home 
Northwest Herald - Feb 20 10:53 PM
Any sport that requires safety gear, like harnesses, crampons, ice axes and rope, is probably not an appropriate place for a pet dog to be, and could endanger both the dog and owner, said Julie Kittams, a Portland veterinarian for sled dogs in the Iditarod.Save

Wright overcame pain in win 
The Daily Times - Feb 21 1:41 AM
LANDOVER, Md. — In this age of super-marketing for pharmaceuticals, Amanda Wright could make quite a pitch for her shin splint medication. Its formula is simple: Mix a competitive attitude (50 milligrams) with toughness (100 mg).Save

Talk show host helps patients get prescriptions 
News 8 Austin - Feb 21 10:04 AM
Talk show host Montel Williams made a stop in Austin Wednesday to support Partnership for Prescription Assistance, a program to help those without insurance get prescription medications.Save