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Military to study better pain relief in battle zones
August 13th, 2007
University of Michigan scientists have received a pilot grant of nearly $1.3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to test whether nanoparticles can solve a pressing problem in battle zones like Iraq: how to administer sustained, safe doses of the most effective painkillers to injured soldiers, long before they can reach expert medical help. The ultimate goal is to develop tiny drug-bearing particles that a fellow soldier —or perhaps the injured soldier himself —could inject with a pen-like device, even in the heat of combat. That would solve one of the challenges now. Morphine, an effective painkiller that the military commonly uses for the acute...
Source: Biotech Business Week (2007-08-13)
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