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Pfizer halts testing of back pain drug tanezumab
July 19, 2010 8:10 PM
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. is stopping tests of an experimental drug for two types of pain at the request of federal regulators. Pfizer was testing tanezumab in patients with chronic low back pain and with painful nerve damage from diabetes complications. The move comes four weeks after Pfizer halted... more » -
Back pain widely overtreated
June 8, 2010 8:36 AM
A recent estimate has Americans spending a staggering $86 billion a year to care for aching backs. The money covers MRIs, pain pills, nerve blocks and a host of other treatments. But research finds little evidence that the patients got better as medical bills soared over the past decade.... more »
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