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Vancouver resident Lee Wiebe knows what it's like to endure perpetual agony. Wiebe, who is on the board of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, suffers from chronic pain caused by an inflammatory arthritis known as ankylosing spondylitis.

A former Gardner doctor who coerced his sexual assault victims by illegally giving them morphine and intimate massages for common ailments such as sore throats and back pain is being sued in federal court.

As the outbreak of H1N1 intensifies, there is a growing need for greater speed and accuracy in collecting specimens from patients for testing to determine with what they've been infected.

How harmful are the drugs on the list drawn up by the ousted government drugs adviser and his colleagues? Professor David Nutt was last week forced to resign from his role as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

A seriously injured man had his mobile phone stolen from hospital - " and was then stung for a A 500 bill racked up by the thief.

Absence of govt policy on treatment of pain and a draconian law deny lakhs of cancer patients morphine which often is the only remedy for pain Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi November 1, 2009, 1:04 IST "Relieve my pain or let me die," said a patient at Hyderabad cancer hospital, writhing with pain.

Several people are charged with driving while intoxicated, while others face counts of either driving while under the influence of drugs or driving while ability is impaired by the use of alcohol.

A medical alert bracelet is a special bracelet worn by people who have serious medical condition, drug allergies, or other special needs.

While exporting drugs, India has millions suffering from pain Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 16:34 As a patient, Simha knows what opiates can do: the blessed relief from pain that cheap, simple drugs such as morphine can provide.

So Bill Manov, director of alcohol and drug services, "More teens boozing and toking," Sentinel, Oct.

Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of pharmacists and geriatric experts.

Hundreds of thousands of patients in India unnecessarily experience excruciating pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report today.

And numbness and tingling are hardly the worst symptoms of this highly variable condition, which involves damage to one or more of the myriad nerves outside the brain and spinal cord.

Before William Creed succumbs to cancer, he wants to know why his 27-year-old son died in 2006 while in the custody of officials at the Prince William County jail.

On Oct. 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical-marijuana users and distributors who comply with state laws, formalizing a policy at which the Obama Administration hinted earlier this year.

A German doctor has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of 13 cancer patients who died from suspected overdoses of pain-killing drugs.

On the first day of her trial in a courtroom in Hannover, a German doctor has denied killing her patients.

A German doctor dubbed the Angel of Death has denied killing 13 cancer patients, telling the first day of her trial that she wanted them to live out their remaining days in dignity.

Opioids and Opioid-Induced Constipation Main Category: Pain / Anesthetics Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 20 Oct 2009 - 1:00 PDT Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc.

For the first time, a surgical robot has been used to perform minimally invasive reconstructive surgery on five children whose bladder was dysfunctional because they were born with spina bifida [incomplete formation of the spine or spinal cord]. Researchers who presented a study at the 2009 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons ...