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PLx Pharma
PLx Pharma is developing another safer pain-reliever.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Safest painkiller ever, if it works.
Although companies such as Pozen and Horizon Therapeutics, among others, are trying to make safer painkillers by combining antacids with over-the-counter pain relievers, Biolipox is actually trying to make the “perfect” painkiller. They hope to do so by engineering a painkiller that doesn’t block the heart and stomach-protecting substances called prostaglandins.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Body’s own feel-good chemical and painkiller: endomorphin
Neurotide is developing pain medication based on endomorphins, the body’s own “feel good” chemical, which also helps block pain signals.
Wow!
More “safe” painkiller competition
Horizon Therapeutics, in addition to Pozen, which I blogged about earlier, is developing a safer non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). The idea is to bundle a PPI inhibitor (basically, an antacid) with the painkiller–in this case, ibuprofen–to lessen the stomach-acid producing effects of painkillers.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pozen’s painkiller PN candidate
In the report mentioned in my previous post, the recommendation is to take an acid reflux drug along with naproxen sodium, in order to mitigate the latter’s stomach-acid inducing effect.
Pozen, a nascent biotech, is working on its PN candidate: a combination of naproxen sodium with a protein pump inhibitor (PPI). PPIs buffer stomach acid. Additionally, [...]
Common sense, rather than reliance on medical studies, should prevail.
Unfortunately, as is usually the case with the scientific community, although studies at times seem enlightening, they’re usually not final, or authoritative.
Just three days ago on Sept. 13, 2006, a new report published by the Journal of American Medical Association came out countering the “FDA warns naproxen users” report from Dec. 21, 2004, just under [...]
