In The News

General health related news is available 
and updated Daily at
 Ivanhoe.com
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Posted: 10 April 2002
FDA Approves AVINZA Once-Daily for Chronic, Moderate-to-Severe Pain; Ligand Planning Second Quarter Launch into $2.3 Billion Market

To read the story, click here.

 

Posted: 12 February 2002
Myelogram Kills Otherwise Healthy man
The Denver Post reports, a toxicology report indicates that a 73 year old man with back pain died from an X-ray procedure called a myelogram. The injection contained an ionic contrast medium dye no longer approved for use in the spine. 

Despite the red-lettered warning on the bottle of the dye stating that it should not be injected into the spinal column, a hospital in Colorado injected it into the unsuspecting patient.

Unfortunately, this is not the only case where ionic dyes were misused this way. Nineteen cases have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration of which seven (7) patients died.

To read the story about this unfortunate case, click here.

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Posted: 12 February 2002

Focus on 
Measuring Effectiveness of Appropriate Pain Management

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Posted: 11 June 2001
Myodil/Adhesive Arachnoiditis discussed on BBC
Right-Click to download MP3 file (5.3Mb) for transcript in word format (39K), click here

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Posted: Nov 2000
Is US HealthCare Really the Best in the World?