Oral Drug For Pain From Cone Snails And Plants Molecules from cone snail venom and African plants are being used by Queensland researchers as a blueprint to develop an oral drug to treat chronic pain.Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National
Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to aid in translating their research into a product available for Australians to use.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOral Prolonged Release Oxycodone / Naloxone Combination Reduces Opioid-induced Constipation In Severe Chronic Pain Patients, With No Loss Of Analgesia The addition of oral prolonged release (PR) naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to the opioid PR oxycodone significantly reduces opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in severe chronic pain patients without affecting analgesia, according to three new studies presented at this year's British Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting in Liverpool.
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