Duragesic, Fentanyl News

All three drugs produced a rapid decrease in pain scores as assessed using a visual linear analogue, morphine being the least effective.

A member of the Lincoln County Commissioners was arrested Wednesday for purchasing a controlled substance.

Covidien , a leading global provider of healthcare products, announced that its subsidiary, Mallinckrodt Inc., has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of its Abbreviated New Drug Application for Oral Transmucosal Fentanyl Citrate .

The side effects of cancer treatment depend on the type of treatment which is received by the patient.

I'm telling this story to get it off my mind. Patients don't usually stay with me.

These are promising times for Colorado`s medical marijuana patients. For years, they`ve suffered in the dark, desperately seeking only to follow their physicians` orders to use marijuana to address their debilitating medical conditions, taking their wheelchairs at midnight to the streets to purchase low-quality medicine at inflated prices, or ...

Robert Davis has had 25 skin-cancer surgeries over the past four years and he has the scars to prove it.

Meda Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced the launch of Onsolis in the U.S. for the management of breakthrough pain in patients with cancer, eighteen years of age and older, who are already receiving and who are tolerant to opioid therapy for their underlying persistent cancer pain.

Doctors may finally be getting the message about dangers associated with fentanyl patches, if Johnson & Johnson 's Q3 2009 earnings are any indication.

BioAlliance Pharma SA , a company dedicated to the treatment and supportive care of cancer and AIDS patients, today announced the approval from the French Drug Agency to enter first Phase I clinical trial for Fentanyl Lauriad .

MILTON a ' A Saratoga County man has been charged with felony criminal sale of a controlled substance for allegedly selling Fentanyl pain relief patches that were used by a 17-year-old Greenwich boy who died in May of a drug overdose.

Kristen Parker, the Colorado-based healthcare worker who possibly infected 35 patients with hepatitis C , was sentenced to 20 years in prison based on a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

Uppsala, Sweden, 6th October, 2009 - Orexo AB today confirms that its partner, ProStrakan Group plc , has announced that the New Drug Application filing for Abstral has been accepted for review by the US Food and Drug Administration .

A Louisa County man who pleaded guilty to distributing a powerful opiate pain reliever to one of his housemates was acquitted of felony murder yesterday in her 2007 drug-overdose death.

What: BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to celebrate the recent approval and upcoming launch of ONSOLIS .

The man accused of providing the prescription pain patch to a woman who died after chewing it is on trial in Louisa County.

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. announced the filing of a New Drug Submission to Health Canada, the regulatory authority in Canada, for BEMA Fentanyl, also known as fentanyl buccal soluble film.

The sentencing of Dawn Cote, who was found guilty last week of selling a powerful painkiller to a woman who fatally overdosed, has been set for Nov.

The mother of an autistic teen who died after a mistake Seattle's Children's Hospital admitted making doesn't think the hospital is sincere with its apology.

Seattle Children's Hospital says it made a medication error that cost a teenager his life.