Researchers at the University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre have designed a therapeutic robot that simulates human skin-to-skin ...
Mar 28, 2019
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Innovators at Cardiff Medicentre have pioneered microneedle technology that could end certain types of injections.
Mar 25, 2019
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In 2017 alone, 47,600 Americans died from opioid overdoses. That's 130 people every day.
Mar 22, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Expectant moms often try to plan as many aspects of their upcoming delivery as they can. But one thing they might not consider is what type of pain relief they will choose if they need to have a C-section.
Mar 22, 2019
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Pain relief and end of life care is not being provided equally to people with advanced progressive diseases who were at home during their last three months of life, according to a study of 43,000 people who died across England.
Mar 21, 2019
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The spinal surgery David B. underwent in November wasn't his first – but it was the first time he was awake for a procedure.
Mar 6, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Codeine is one of the drugs at the center of the opioid epidemic affecting adults and teens across the United States. There are also concerns about its effects on very young children—not addiction, but life-threatening ...
Feb 19, 2019
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Opioid drugs prescribed to children for pain relief after a typical pediatric orthopaedic procedure may be significantly overprescribed, according to a new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). ...
Jan 16, 2019
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A new report has revealed that patients in the north of the country are being prescribed almost four times more opioids to relieve pain than those in the south.
Jan 14, 2019
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Pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer on Wednesday announced a merger of their consumer healthcare units that produce over-the-counter medicines.
Dec 19, 2018
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