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Army Staff Sgt. Christian Hughes fingers his scar, the first of four. One bullet, he says, went in here.

A PHARMACIST who illegally gave her friend painkillers 100 times stronger than morphine has been jailed for a year.

An autopsy confirms that a man found unconscious on a Greyhound bus two hours after being discharged from Cherry Hospital died after ingesting a prescription painkiller given to him by the state psychiatric facility.

Morphine "might spread cancer" from BBC News reports that morphine can form new blood vessels to feed tumors and help them grow.

Ancient drugs...opium, morphine, even absinthe. Can they still be potent after decades? If you were to find your great-grandma's cocaine cough syrup, or her opium-based migraine reliever, would they still have any power left in them? Could someone pour hot water in a 90 year old opium bottle with sludge at the bottom, swirl it around, and ease ...

The trial of an Air Force nurse accused of killing patients has begun at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Red John unleashes his evil upon those investigating him. "His Red Right Hand" The show opens with Rigsby and Grace Van Pelt sleeping together.

Investigators say a paramedic stole potent pain relievers and replaced them with saline solution.

She was a friend, a really good friend, who died much too soon. And if dying young wasna TMt tragic enough, she died a slow, agonizing death, in and out of consciousness for weeks, all the while begging for someone to stop the pain.

People who suffer from depression are much more likely to be prescribed powerful opioid painkillers like morphine and codeine and to stay on the drugs long-term, new research shows.

Evidence is mounting that morphine, commonly used to manage pain, may accelerate cancer growth, but a newly-approved drug that blocks its side effects could also keep tumors from spreading, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of cancer cells.

Lawyers for a military nurse charged with three counts of murder said they'll expose deficiencies at Wilford Hall Medical Center while proving their client is innocent.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the "slippery slope": Once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, driven by the continued dominance of opioids that include immediate-release morphine and novel fast acting opioid reformulations, the cancer pain drug market will increase from $2.3 billion in 2008 to $3.7 billion in 2018 ...

Attorneys for a former Air Force nurse charged with killing three elderly patients by giving them lethal doses of medication say it would be negligent to undertreat pain for the terminally sick in their final days.Capt. Michael Fontana faces three counts of murder when his military court martial begins Monday at Lackland Air Force Base.

Millennium Laboratories, a leading provider of therapeutic drug monitoring and education to physicians and staff treating chronic pain patients, announced today the company's development and validation of a clinical quantitative assay for the new drug tapentadol by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry .

Dr. Lourdes Cruz with her collection of marine snail shells. MANILA - A local scientist who helped discover a snail toxin a thousand times more powerful than morphine, was chosen as the first Filipino winner of the 2010 L'oral-UNESCO "For Women In Science Awards." Dr.

A convicted drug dealer was arrested again Wednesday for allegedly selling his prescribed pain medication.

I just get the feeling that every time I ask him, he's thinking, "Oh great, here we go again." Yet he always seems to begrudgingly come through.