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Setting kids up with virtual reality game eases pain of burn treatment: study (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
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" TORONTO (CP) - There are few hospital procedures more distressing for a child than treatment for a severe burn. But doctors think they've found a way to help kids escape the often excruciating pain by taking them on a virtual journey."
The COX-2 Dilemma: Risking Heart Problems to Ease Pain (RedNova)
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"Staying on drugs despite risk''This is a wake-up call for all of us,'' says Sara Walker, a doctor with the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. ''There are many problems that a simple pill can't or won't fix. We have to individualize every case.''Apparently, many patients and doctors already have calculated that the risks from taking COX-2 inhibitors or older"
Cryoablation is effective in treating cancer patients' pain (Medical News Today)
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"Freezing tumors is an effective way to treat a cancer patient's pain, preliminary results of a new study show. The study, which appears in the March 2005 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, found that cryoablation relieved the pain of four patients who had very advanced disease."
Virtual reality games can ease pain (The Washington Times)
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"Adelaide, Australia, Mar. 2 (UPI) -- Australian researchers have found virtual reality games can help alleviate pain in children being treated for severe injuries."
Laproscopic hysterectomy saves time, pain (The Washington Times)
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"Dallas, TX, Mar. 2 (UPI) -- A laparoscopic hysterectomy offers women less pain and a quicker recovery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center officials said Wednesday."
Chronic Pain News from NewsTrove
Some suggestions for Harvard's faculty: integrity sacrificed on altar of political power
From: NewsTrove.com
"Lawrence Summers, I feel your pain.
The sad truth about a society that becomes increasingly politicized by the day is that the principal victim is integrity. Thoughtfulness and honesty count for less and less and appearances count for more and more.
Summers, president of Harvard, speaking informally at an economics conference dealing with diversity, suggested that one possible reason for fewer women on science and engineering faculties may be less inherent ability in women to perform at the highest levels of these fields.
Is this possible? Yes. Can you say this at a university? Apparently not."
Vioxx to be put back on market
From: NewsTrove.com
"OXFORD, Miss -- An expert advisory panel with the Food and Drug Administration recently gave the green light to put the arthritis and acute pain medication Vioxx back on the market.
On Sept. 30, 2004, Vioxx was pulled from shelves by its manufacturer, Merck & Co., Inc., because data showed an increased risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart attack and stroke. Now, Vioxx has been given the OK to be put back on the market under strict
conditions, including the "black box warning" -- the FDA's most severe warning.
The panel also voted to keep Bextra and Celebrex on the
market."
The BG News - Vioxx to be put back on market
From: NewsTrove.com
"OXFORD, Miss -- An expert advisory panel with the Food and Drug Administration recently gave the green light to put the arthritis and acute pain medication Vioxx back on the market.
On Sept. 30, 2004, Vioxx was pulled from shelves by its manufacturer, Merck & Co., Inc., because data showed an increased risk of cardiovascular problems such as heart attack and stroke. Now, Vioxx has been given the OK to be put back on the market under strict
conditions, including the "black box warning" -- the FDA's most severe warning.
The panel also voted to keep Bextra and Celebrex on the
market."
Woman crawls 8 hours to car after accident
From: NewsTrove.com
"Mar. 1, 2005 01:15 PM
SHERWOOD PARK, Canada - Lori Kublik knew she was in trouble after crawling through the snow in rugged Alberta backcountry for an hour. Nightfall was coming and a trail sign told her she was still a mile and a half from her car.
Unable to walk because of a broken ankle, she'd covered maybe a third of a mile after a cross-country skiing accident in the mountains of Kananaskis Country west of Calgary.
"That was the first time I got worried," Kublik, 35, said this week at her parents' home in Sherwood Park where she is recuperating.
The former interpretive guide had been alone on a trail near Chester Lake on Feb."
EVENTS CALENDAR
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"Peace choir, Wednesday rehearsals begin for the May 7 performance of the Missa Gaia by the Merrimack Valley Peace Chorus, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $25 for membership fee and demo CD, registration is required, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6 Locke St.; Rev. Ralph Galen 978-475-4454, or Minister@uuandover.org.
Sunset Boulevard, the 2004-05 Classic Film Series at the Rogers Center for the Arts at Merrimack College in North Andover continues with the 1950 film, starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Jack Webb, a classic film-noir comedy-drama found on many 100-best-films lists; 7 p.m."
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