Rachel Murray was supervising mocks when the pain hit. It got so bad, she had to call another teacher to cover her while she briefly left the room to get a hot pack and anti-inflammatories just to ...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has insisted that pain relief patches must be curtailed because of addiction concerns and over subscribing by doctors. The removal of free Versatis patches for patients has ...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended the Health Service Executive's decision to restrict Versatis patches. The issue has been highlighted by patients who called RTÉ's Liveline programme. Fianna Fáil ...
Grunenthal’s Versatis plaster relieves pain as effectively as oral treatment with Pfizer’s Lyrica but with fewer side-effects, according to results presented at the 12th World Congress on Pain in ...
Funding for the pain-relief patch Versatis has been removed from the Drugs Payment Scheme. Liveline has been hearing from people who rely on the medicated patches for pain relief. Mary-Rose has ...
Chronic pain patients are missing out on precious family moments and don't know how they'll pay for medicine after Versatis patches were removed from the Drug Payment Scheme, a representative group ...
“Patch Us Back Up” spokesman Seamus Eustace (27) from Co Offaly had an accident while kayaking about four years ago and sprained his wrist. “I didn’t do anything about it. I was just out of action for ...
The withdrawal of the pain relief drug Versatis by the HSE from some recipients was because of patient safety, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. He said the patch was being prescribed 10 times as much ...
AACHEN, Germany, January 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Versatis(R), a novel 5 % lidocaine medicated plaster, for the ...