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  Botox Injections Reduce Chronic Neck and Cervical Muscle Pain

  October 13, 2012 — A study revealed Botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX) injections significantly improve pain and quality of life in people with chronic bilateral posterior neck and shoulder myofascial pain ... > full story
• Neuropathy
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  How Nerve Signals Are Sent Around the Body at Varying Speeds as Electrical Impulses

  October 11, 2012 — Scientists have proved a 60-year-old theory about how nerve signals are sent around the body at varying speeds as electrical impulses. Researchers tested how these signals are transmitted through ... > full story
• Marijuana
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  Multiple Sclerosis Research
   

  Cannabis Extract Eases Muscle Stiffness Typical of Multiple Sclerosis, Study Suggests

  October 9, 2012 — Cannabis seems to ease the painful muscle stiffness typical of multiple sclerosis, indicate phase III trial ... > full story
• Neuropathy
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  Putting a Block on Neuropathic Pain Before It Starts: Tiny Spheres Filled With Anesthetic from a Shellfish Toxin

  October 9, 2012 — Using tiny spheres filled with anesthetic from a shellfish toxin, researchers have developed a way to delay the rise of neuropathic pain, chronic pain from flawed signals transmitted by damaged ... > full story
• Neuropathy
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  Immune System Can Boost Nerve Regrowth, Study Suggests

  October 2, 2012 — Modulating immune response to injury could accelerate the regeneration of severed peripheral nerves, a new study in an animal model has found. By altering activity of the macrophage cells that ... > full story
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  Governments Failing to Address 'Global Pandemic of Untreated Cancer Pain'

  September 30, 2012 — Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly because of their failure to ensure adequate access to pain-relieving drugs, an unprecedented new ... > full story
• Opium
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  Resveratrol May Preserve Pain-Relieving Effects of Morphine

  September 25, 2012 — Resveratrol —- the same natural polyphenol found in red wine -— preserves the potent pain-relieving effect of morphine in rats that have developed morphine tolerance, suggests a new ... > full story
• Mammals
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  Naked Mole-Rats May Hold Clues to Pain Relief

  September 21, 2012 — Naked mole-rats evolved to thrive in an acidic environment that other mammals, including humans, would find intolerable. Researchers report new findings as to how these rodents adapted, which may ... > full story
• Stem Cells
  Skin Cancer
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  At the Right Place at the Right Time: New Insights Into Muscle Stem Cells

  September 17, 2012 — Muscles have a pool of stem cells in special niches which provides a source for muscle growth and for the regeneration of injured muscles. Researchers have elucidated how these stem cells colonize ... > full story
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  Chronic Pain Costs U.S. Up to $635 Billion, Study Shows

  September 11, 2012 — Health economists have reported the annual cost of chronic pain in the United States is as high as $635 billion a year, which is more than the yearly costs for cancer, heart disease and ... > full story

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