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This excerpt taken from the ELN 20-F filed Feb 28, 2008. SEVERE
CHRONIC PAIN
Our commercial activities related to meeting the needs of pain
specialists addressing severe chronic pain involve Prialt,
a new type of therapy for patients that we launched in the
United States in January 2005.
This excerpt taken from the ELN 20-F filed Mar 30, 2006. About
Severe Chronic Pain
There are many different ways to classify pain, including
duration or time, disease base, and whether physiologically the
pain is based in nerves that sense and respond to damage to
parts of the body (nociceptive), or if the pain is the result of
an injury or malfunction in the peripheral or central nervous
system (neuropathic).
Chronic pain can be defined as pain that has lasted over six
months and is not relieved by medical or surgical care. Chronic
pain may result from a previous injury long since healed; or it
may be from an ongoing condition, such as back
and/or leg
pain, cancer pain, complex regional pain syndromes, or painful
nerve disorders (neuropathies).
Pain can be classified as “severe” based on
standardized measurements, such as the Visual Analog Scale of
Pain Intensity. Severe chronic pain is a significant
debilitating condition. Approximately 52,000 patients with
severe chronic pain have their condition managed by intrathecal
therapy.
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