MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Covalon Technologies Ltd.

Injections of arthritis drugs or steroids in the spine may not do much to help patients with chronic back and leg pain due to nerve damage, according to a new study.

Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better.

Women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 years ago, according to an analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.

JERUSALEM and NEEDHAM, Mass., March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oridion (SIX Swiss Exchange: ORIDN), creator of the Integrated Pulmonary Index(TM), one of the Smart Capnography(TM) family of decision-support