TITLE

Numbing the needle

AUTHOR(S)

Wiener, Leonard; Newman, Richard J.

PUB. DATE

April 1993

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;4/19/93, Vol. 114 Issue 15, p72

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Announces that there is a new prescription anesthetic cream, EMLA, that numbs the skin before spinal taps, blood tests and intravenous work. Product of Astra USA Inc.; How it works; Increase in cost due to prescription; Details.

ACCESSION #

9304130525

 

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