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- Title
Stimulating the development of mechanism-based, individualized pain therapies.
- Authors
Woodcock, Janet; Witter, James; Dionne, Raymond A
- Abstract
Biomedical science has greatly improved our understanding of pain in recent decades, but few novel molecular entities that address fundamentally new pain mechanisms have entered the clinic, despite dramatically increased pharmaceutical investment. Indeed, virtually all new analgesics approved over the past 25 years are derivatives or reformulations of opioids or aspirin-like drugs, existing drugs given for a new indication or older drugs given by a different route of administration. Here, we discuss factors contributing to this lack of innovation in therapies for pain and advocate public-private partnerships (PPPs) to translate new knowledge into more efficacious and safer treatments.
- Publication
Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2007, Vol 6, Issue 9, p703
- ISSN
1474-1776
- Publication type
Review
- DOI
10.1038/nrd2335