Clinical trials of a novel non-opioid analgesic have found it to be effective in reducing acute postoperative pain, opening the door to a new way of managing short-term pain that avoids the ...

Many medications and drugs have names ending in "ine" or "is". In reality, this observation is based on naming conventions in ...

AN increased incidence of chronic interstitial nephritis, often associated with necrosis of the renal papillae, was noted in Switzerland by Zollinger and Spühler1 during the decade 1940–1950 ...

Analgesics - Drugs On Medindia find the complete list of Analgesics drugs with their available forms and strength. More information is available on each drug including their price list.

The FDA’s Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and its Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee will meet on Feb. 5 to discuss epidemiologic studies of the serious ...

Drugs such as dexmedetomidine that bind to the norepinephrine alpha-2a (α2a) adrenergic receptor are effective analgesics, but their sedative effects limit their widespread use.

Scientists have recreated a pathway that senses pain, using clusters of human nerve cells grown in a dish.

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The benefits of such over-the-counter pain relievers as aspirin and APCs have long been recognized. But evidence that these familiar remedies are not necessarily harmless in all circumstances has ...

A new review reveals considerable uncertainty around the efficacy and safety of analgesic medications for acute low back pain.

THE relief of pain has always posed a serious problem to the physician in the management of his patient. There is no more interesting chapter in the whole history of medicine than the many and vari ...