The expectation of pain relief produced real pain relief in the absence of medicine.
And the mechanism through which vertebroplasty provided pain relief was a bit of a mystery.
The ideal analgesic would provide localised pain relief in small doses with minimal side-effects.
All of these drugs are used for pain relief and are forms of previously approved medications.
Aggressive strategies for pain relief, like surgery, are expensive and risky, and they often don't help.
Thus, many doses that are sufficient to provide pain relief also pose some risk to the patient.
It is worth noting here that studies show swearing can actually be a source of pain relief.
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Codeine is given at doses when this conversion is optimal for pain relief without adverse effects on breathing.
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Elsewhere, Abbott Laboratories is working on a nicotinic drug aimed at pain relief and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
But it will make it easier to address the suffering of those in legitimate need of pain relief.
Until a decade ago America's medical profession had indeed been laggard and callous in providing pain relief to patients.
Only then are patients truly likely to get the pain relief they need.
It developed the Sancusa patch which stops nausea in patients being treated with chemotherapy and Abstral, a pain relief drug.
It included people being denied pain relief, left to sit in their own faeces and going without food and drink.
Women in Hungary also expect to pay, formally or informally, to be looked after in hospital, and especially for pain relief.
Along with pain relief, Mr Cracknell said osteopathy and holistic healers had been used to treat Anne over the last 18 months.
They suggested doctors are now more likely to use either forceps or suction devices to aid delivery, or to give epidural pain relief.
But growth of the cox-2 class has stalled amid a controversy over whether they deliver on their promise of providing safer pain relief.
If SCP-1 gets through the FDA's hoops, the new morning-after-Mardi-Gras pain relief may be available by prescription in 2005 and over the counter by 2007.
Unknowingly subscribing to Dr. Samuel Johnson's famous definition of advertising: "promise, large promise, " McClung hung a sign outside that said "Pain Relief in 5 Minutes!"
They aim to provide the same pain relief as older anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen, without the older drugs' tendency to occasionally cause nasty ulcers.
There are sound studies for its use as a legitimate therapy for pain relief, and lots of suggestive results that warrant a more rigorous inquiry.
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The team believes that acupuncture was first used in dentistry for pain relief during an operation to remove a patient's tonsils in Shanghai in 1958.
We need the relaxation and pain relief that massage therapy provides.
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The botox gives patients pain relief for three to six months.
He also thinks the overuse of ibuprofen shows that we have lost the confidence to deal with minor aches and pains in our lives without pain relief.
The bill would allow the use of federally controlled narcotics for genuine pain relief, but would ban such drugs from being used to take a person's life.
The researchers included the methadone patients for comparison because this drug (used for pain relief and to wean addicts off heroin) is known to prolong QT interval.
Elsewhere, Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ) is working on a nicotinic drug aimed at pain relief and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Cases have also been documented of patients left crying out for help because they did not get pain relief and food and drinks being left out of reach.
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