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Gabapentin shown effective for fibromyalgia pain
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/nioa-gse06110...
Submitted by karuturi 17 months, 5 days, 6 hours ago
New research supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) shows that the anticonvulsant medication gabapentin, which is used for certain types of seizures, can be an effective treatment for the pain and other symptoms associated with the common, often hard-to-treat chronic pain disorder, fibromyalgia. In the NIAMS-sponsored, randomized, double-blind clinical trial of 150 women (90 percent) and men with the condit
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