The Academy is pleased to provide you with access to information about the latest clinical trials in pain management.

~January 2008

New Clinical Trials January 2008
Below are abstracts of recent pain and pain management studies selected from the National Library of Medicine. Click on the link below each entry for the complete abstract.

Colorado

Headache Disorders
City: Longmont
Summary: A research study of an investigational medication for prevention of migraine headaches.

Florida

Endometriosis
City: Aventura
Summary: A clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of an intravaginally administered medication for the treatment of endometriosis associated pain.

Nervous System Diseases
City: Clearwater
Summary: A research study evaluating an investigational topical medicine for the treatment of pain associated with post-herpetic neuralgia.

City: Ocala
Summary: A research study on diabetic neuropathy seeks patients with pain primarily in the feet.

Indiana

Fibromyalgia
City: Indianapolis
Summary: A study evaluating the efficacy of exercise-based motivational interviewing for fibromyalgia.

Pancreatitis
City: Indianapolis
Summary: A study to obtain preliminary safety and efficacy data after EUS-CPN (Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Celiac Plexus Neurolysis )in patients with locally advanced or unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Massachusetts

Analgesics, Opioid
City: Boston
Summary: A research study investigating the effect of opioid (narcotic) pain medicines on pain sensation, threshold and tolerance in subjects with chronic pain.

City: Boston
Summary: A study of subcutaneous MOA-728 for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in subjects with chronic non-malignant pain.

Nervous System Diseases
City: Boston
Summary: Clinical trials evaluating various medications to help relieve chronic neuropathic pain as a result of a spinal cord injury.

City: Boston
Summary: A research study of an investigational medication on central neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.

Minnesota

Fibromyalgia
City: Chaska
Summary: A research study to determine if an investigational study drug will help relieve the pain and improve the quality of life with subjects who have fibromyalgia.

Mississippi

Nervous System Diseases
City: Hattiesburg
Summary: A research study seeks people with pain associated with post-herpetic neuralgia.

Missouri

Nervous System Diseases
City: Kansas City
Summary: A study evaluating the safety and efficacy of 2 weeks of topical KD7040 versus placebo in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia.

Pelvic Pain
City: Columbia
Summary: Study of laparoscopic assisted transvaginal endoscopic diagnostic peritoneoscopy in women with pelvic pain.

New York

Facial Pain
City: Albany
Summary: A study comparing the degree of pain control provided by two techniques for persons with toothache in an emergency department.

Vulvar Diseases
City: New York
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Summary: A research study seeks participants diagnosed with vulvar vestibulitis or experiencing pain in the vaginal entry during sex that limits or prevents intercourse.

North Carolina

Back Pain
City: Raleigh
Summary: A research study evaluating an investigational drug's pain relieving effects on low back pain.

Nervous System Diseases
City: Durham
Summary: A study designed to assess the effects of pregabalin on change in patients with diabetic neuropathy.

Ohio

Back Pain
City: Cincinnati
Summary: A research study of an investigational medication patch for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic lower back pain (CLBP).

Headache Disorders
City: Cincinnati
Summary: A clinical research study of an investigational drug for the treatment of Migraines.

Nervous System Diseases
City: Cincinnati
Summary: A clinical research study evaluating the safety and effect of an investigational drug for people with hypertension (high blood pressure) associated with diabetic neuropathy.

Pennsylvania

Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
City: Philadelphia
Summary: A study of outpatient intravenous ketamine for the treatment of CRPS.

Headache Disorders
City: Media
Summary: An investigational medication research study for migraines.

Texas

Herpes Zoster
City: San Antonio
Summary: A research study using an investigational medication and placebo on subjects diagnosed with shingles at least 3 months ago but no more than 5 years ago.

Virginia

Arthritis
City: Falls Church
Summary: A study to determine the safety of medications used to treat pain for subjects with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis who are at high risk for heart disease.

Headache Disorders
City: Richmond
Summary: A trial designed to study whether closing the patent foramen ovale will help migraine sufferers.


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