Thursday, September 30, 2010

Pfizer Arthritis Drug Tanezumab Quenched Pain Too Well, Leading to Damage - BusinessWeek

This is more potent than any pain medication I have ever had in arthritis,” said Lane, director of the Center for Aging at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, in a telephone interview. “Because this is a new chapter in controlling pain, we didn’t realize we needed to counsel our patients in using their joints that were still diseased. Now we need to figure out how to use it so the risks don’t outweigh the benefits.

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