Depomed says shingles pain drug meets study goal

Chickenpox/Shinges

By: dottie62

If you had Chickenpox as a child,you could get Shingles now. The chickenpox virus is still in your body. It can resurface as Shingles,a painful blistering rash.It usually lasts up to 30 days.Some people can experience long-term pain that can last months,even years. Zostavax is a vaccine that can help prevent Shingles.It is used to prevent ...

12 days ago

India: Provide Access to Pain Treatment

By: chnarendra

Hundreds of thousands of patients in India unnecessarily experience excruciating pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report today. Restrictive drug regulations, lack of training for health care workers, and poorly integrated care result in needless suffering for patients because they cannot get inexpensive and effective pain medications. The 102-...

29 days ago

What makes a woman want to have sex? Is it physical attraction? Love? ...

By: jamimran

  t turns out that woman have sex for all of these reasons and more, and that their choices are not arbitrary; there may be evolutionary explanations at work. Psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss, both professors at the University of Texas at Austin, decided that the topic of "why women have sex" deserved a book of its own. They've woven ...

about 1 month ago

How fructose raises your blood pressure

By: AnneHart

If you eat too much fructose, you may get high blood pressure. But instead of lowering your consumption of fructose, there's a drug made to lower high blood pressure caused by eating too much fructose from beverages and foods sweetened with lots of fructose. See the article, "Medical News: Allopurinol Lowers Fructose-Triggered Hypertension." What ...

about 1 month ago