Long-lasting nerve block could change pain management
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 05:28
in Health & Medicine
Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a slow-release anesthetic drug-delivery system that could potentially revolutionize treatment of pain during and after surgery, and may also have a large impact on chronic pain management. In work funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), they used specially designed fat-based particles called liposomes to package saxitoxin, a potent anesthetic, and produced long-lasting local anesthesia in rats without apparent toxicity to nerve or muscle cells. read more
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