Nanoscale, biodegradable drug-delivery method could provide a year or more of steady doses
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 05:30
in Health & Medicine
About one in four older adults suffers from chronic pain. Many of those people take medication, usually as pills. But this is not an ideal way of treating pain: Patients must take medicine frequently, and can suffer side effects, since the contents of pills spread through the bloodstream to the whole body.