Topic: Boston

A more likely scenario is that doctors increased morphine doses to ease pain, and that the children's subsequent deaths were only coincidental, said lead author Dr. Joanne Wolfe, a palliative pain specialist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston.Reilly was ...

Music As Medicine

The effects may be a result of "relaxation, distraction, or triggering the central nervous system to stop pain transmission," speculates lead reviewer M. Soledad Cepeda, a faculty member of the department of anesthesia at Tufts-New England Medical School in Boston. Though the ...

Gout Drug Shows Promise

11/9/2007 Print E-mail A drug called rilonacept (IL-1 Trap) may reduce disease activity and pain in patients with chronic active gout.. The study was led by Dr. Robert Terkeltaub of the VA Medical Center and University of California, San Diego.. In the ...