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FDA Approves Opioid Pain Reliever With Required Risk Reduction Plan

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Onsolis, medication intended for certain patients with cancer to help manage breakthrough pain - severe flares of pain that break through regular pain medication.
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Groups Mark Day Of The African Child, Highlight Improvement In Children's Survival, Work To Be Done

To mark Day of the African Child on Tuesday, the U.N. Millennium Campaign is calling on African governments, civil society organizations and the private sector to address child and maternal mortality and other targets related to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), InDepthNews reports (Mwanda, InDepthNews, 6/16), while Save the Children released a new briefing paper, indicating that more than 1,500 babies born in sub-Saharan Africa die daily, "mostly from preventable or treatable causes," (Save the Children release, 6/16).

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Other "-Caines" Often Replace Novocaine In The Dentist's Office - Chemical & Engineering News

Novocaine? Not necessarily. The widespread belief that dentists rely on Novocaine to make those office visits almost painless needs some updating, according to an article scheduled for the June 29 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS" weekly newsmagazine. In fact, patients are more likely to get any of several other anesthetics than the century-old standby Novocaine, which once reigned as the archetypal dental anesthetic.