The three existing trials look at the medicines' effects on cancer pain and brachial plexus injury - a severe form of nerve-damage pain, as well as general MS pain.

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Other software, from i-Plexus Solutions, facilitates payments from insurers.

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That was quite a punch to the emotional solar plexus of an eight-year-old boy.

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The award to Plexus in Kelso is the second-largest made under the regional selective assistance scheme for the last quarter of 2007.

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Peter Chepucavage, a consultant at Plexus Consulting and a former SEC lawyer who helped revise short-selling rules earlier this decade, said the SEC is using the 30-day authority to see if the plan works.

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