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California is right up on the list where medical marijuana is legal with a prescription from a doctor. Over the last year the City of Los Angeles has come on strong as it became almost too easy. BD United States Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to revise a policy to allow veterans...
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The medication is given in a film format the dissolves in your mouth, thus no need for water. The drug is to be used for the prevention of Chemotherapy-induced, Radiotherapy-induced, and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting. For cancer patients needing treatment from the drug, this could make...
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Purdue is the same company that brought us Oxycontin and the patches are supposed to be a safer way to release the pain medication and again, don’t put more than one patch on of course. It does contain an opioid controlled substance so available only by prescription and is worn for 7 days. ...
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Back in March, DePuy sent a letter to doctors advising that the ASR was being phased out. The woman filing the lawsuit had problems, pain, and the device failed and was replaced with a device from another company. The suit alleges that the company knew of the defects after receiving FDA approval...
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We are starting to see more drug delivery systems moving to an “inhaled” version and here’s one more example. The drug is non-narcotic and should be free of the normal side effects normally associated with that drug group. In addition we are seeing new devices that contain drugs and some...
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We have heard quite a bit about the brain implants but this is the first that I have heard of this technology that will adjust the amount of relief based on the patient’s position. If you have used an IPhone you know what an accelerator and the technology here is similar but a lot more sophisticated...
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This is an interesting series of events here, and if the failure rate is high, why are the hips being “phased” out, in other words are they still being sold until the end of this year as the article states? Hip Replacement Study Released - Metal on Metal Devices Are Beginning to Fail Sooner than...
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This proves interesting as Allergan back in October last year filed a law suit for the “off label” warning to be removed, in other words the “black box” warning. Allegan is also facing competition in this area that sells the same product for a cheaper price. Botox is looking to almost be the everything...
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Many individuals that have had hip replacements that are metal to metal and perhaps not a combination of metal and/or other material needing to be replaced. The article mentions the Mayo Clinic has reduced their number used by 80%. With the metal in the body, surrounding tissue is dying and...
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This was sent to me and I thought worth sharing, new ideas that I had not thought of. The hair thing sounds good to me and know a couple folks that could certainly benefit from a foot soak with vodka too. The toothache was the first use of this sort I had heard of. I guess if all else...
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Need a pain patch, hot chilies to the rescue, well sort of. The pain patch product, Qutenza need a prescription by your physician. It is stated to be helpful with relief from shingles in this article. It sounds like some pretty powerful stuff as one application applied by a physician...
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This is an interesting post from a doctor who himself was put through the hoops of what we might call defensive medicine. He has a shingles problem and once he arrived at the ER room, he found out how vulnerable he was after a day at the hospital, 2 MRIs, a CT Scan, visits with specialists, etc...
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New study says it’s ok and it helps by diverting the attention of where your pain lies. No mention of how effective this might be for chronic pain and the English language as used today could really evolve (grin). BD Swearing increased pain tolerance in a small study of college students...
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When you read something like this, it really makes you think seriously about the potential of medical devices that maybe can help in some of these areas. BD Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans' death was accidental, caused by a prescription painkiller, a coroner said Tuesday. Clark County...
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This is a very interesting video, if you use one of the baby carriers, it assumes you are going to have some pain and this is where Motrin comes to the rescue? Someone along the line got pretty creative for Motrin, couldn’t be a headache or something else along that line, the baby carrier will create...