Beth Faiman MSN, CNP, a doctoral candidate at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, is studying whether an over-the-counter medication could ease chemotherapy side effects... read more →
An Air Force reserve squadron out of Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts, is finding some curious coincidences among the men who served with them. C-123 Provider planes used to... read more →
Scientists at Cambridge University, London, have identified a gene responsible for regulating chronic pain. Their drug discovery should help drug researchers in their search for more effective, targeted pain-killing medicines.... read more →
Biopharmaceutical company, NeurogesX, announced it submitted a supplemental new drug to the US FDA seeking to expand the label to include an application for the management of pain due to... read more →
At Kerman University of Medical Sciences in Kerman, Iran, researchers investigated the possible effects of olive leaf extract on in vitro and in vivo models of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Their... read more →
Univeristy of Michigan neurologist, David Fink, MD, leads the team studying treatment for nerve damage related to diabetes and chemotherapy. They will join Diamyd Inc. in a project funded by... read more →
Diamyd Medical and the University of Michigan have been awarded a $3M three-year NIH grant to develop a product for use in preventing chemo-induced neuropathy. The product could be administered... read more →
Conquer Cancer Foundation Presents Award to Dr. Schneider for his Research in Breast Cancer Patients
Dr. Bryan Schneider, MD, associate professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, was announced as the recipient of a $450,000 grant to further his research on the relationship... read more →
Cannabidiol - a compound derived from marijuana - may be a promising new treatment to prevent the development of painful neuropathy in patients receiving the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel. These results... read more →
Colleen Erb, MSN, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, from Fox Chase Cancer Center writes about the debilitating effects of cancer treatments for patients - sepcifically peripheral neuropathy. Her article is in-depth and loaded... read more →