He also prescribed Provigil, a stimulant, and Vicodin, a painkiller with high amounts of acetaminophen.
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To make it available by prescription only would deprive consumers of a painkiller that is no more dangerous than others.
Liquidity is more like a painkiller than a cure, and the ECB is itself worried about creating an addiction to cheap money.
Goldstein isn't against conventional medicine when the circumstances call for it, and in the cancer's later stages he put Clyde on a painkiller.
In that case, a musician lost her arm after being improperly injected with a painkiller that contained multiple warnings against the specific practice that caused her injuries.
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The U.K.'s Food Standards Agency on Thursday said it found traces of drug phenylbutazone, a painkiller and anti-inflammatory known as bute, in eight of some 200 horse carcasses it tested.
An inquest into his death at Harrogate Magistrates Court in April 2012 found he had died of an accidental overdose of morphine, which he had been prescribed as a painkiller.
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Our meal of a kids-sized grilled cheese with vegetables, black bean veggie burger and chunky lobster roll, washed down with a milk, Peak Summit ale and a Painkiller cocktail (rum, coconut cream and fruit juices) respectively, left everyone happy.
And sample surveys of death certificates, followed by inquiries of the doctors concerned, indeed showed that by 2001 in 40% of all deaths the doctor either gave a painkiller that might shorten the patient's life, or simply ceased treatment.
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Dr Lingueglia said it was "really surprising" that black mamba venom would contain such a powerful painkiller.
Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) had already launched a similar painkiller, Celebrex.
Of course, there's no reason not to do both--so long as someone decides to pay for a big painkiller trial.
He told me that he usually uses a topical painkiller first and then injects numbing lidocaine into the area he's going to fill.
From the moment it hit the market in 1999, Vioxx had one vital claim: It was a safer painkiller that didn't cause ulcers as often as older drugs do.
The son of a man who died after being given a lethal dose of painkiller by a doctor flown in from Germany to provide weekend cover has called for vetting procedures to be tightened.
Vioxx and Bextra, a Pfizer painkiller, both remain off the market in the U.S., and there is new controversy in Congress about the role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in ensuring drug safety.
Arcoxia was as safe as a widely used painkiller, and it (or drugs like it) could provide an option to the 46 million Americans who suffer from arthritis pain.
Celebrex is the first of a new kind of painkiller called COX-2 inhibitors to get FDA approval.
An example of what can go wrong came in December, when the FDA put out a warning about the painkiller Aleve.
Topol, a renowned cardiologist who has been a leading critic of Merck's painkiller Vioxx, is once again finding himself at the center of a heated court battle in a lawsuit about the drug.
Established drugs includes the antibiotic Clarithromycin and the prescription painkiller Brufen, a version of ibuprofen.
Novartis is looking to enter the arthritis drug market with its own version of a widely successful class of painkiller.
In 2004, McCready was placed on three years' probation after she pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining the painkiller OxyContin at a pharmacy.
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Singer Michael Jackson was probably addicted to the painkiller Demerol, a witness for the defence in the trial of his doctor, Conrad Murray, has said.
In 2004, she was charged with obtaining the painkiller OxyContin fraudulently at a pharmacy.
Topol, a renowned cardiologist who has been a leading critic of Merck 's painkiller Vioxx, is leaving the Cleveland Clinic for Case Western University's Case Medical School, according to Case spokesman George Stamatis.
Hughes needed an injection of painkiller in September 2011 to alleviate a seven-year-old back injury that recurred.
Merck kept insisting that its attempt to get approved its painkiller Arcoxia, designed years ago as a follow-up to the then-successful Vioxx, at least had a chance.
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