News 13. FDA Approves New Drug for Severe Pain.

<STYLE>P{margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:2px;}</STYLE> [NEW WORDS]   ♧ chronic : a. 만성적인, 고질적인   ♧ terminal : a. 말기의, 치명적인   ♧ ease : v. 완화하다, 경감시키다   ♧ controversial : a. 논쟁의 여지가 있는, 물의를 일으키는   ♧ snail : n. 달팽이   ♧ venom : n. 독사, 절갈 벌 등의 독   ♧ paralyze : v. 마비시키다, 무력하게 하다   ♧ prey : n. 먹이   ♧ synthetic : a. 합성의, 인조의   ♧ unbearable : a. 견딜 수 없는, 참기 어려운   ♧ handicapped : a. 심신 장애의   ♧ restrict : v. 제한하다, 한정하다   ♧ therapy : n. 치료법   ♧ side effect : n. 부작용   ♧ vomit : v. 토하다, 게우다   ♧ dizziness : n. 현기증   ♧ hallucination : n. 환각, 환상   ♧ implant : v. 주입하다, 이식하다   ♧ abdomen : n. 배, 복부   ♧ derive : v. 끌어내다, 얻어내다, 추론하다       For millions of people, living with chronic pain is a daily battle. Some of those suffering are dealing with painful terminal illnesses. Until now, morphine has been the leading option to ease the pain, but today, for the first time in twenty years, the Federal Drug Administration approved a new and controversial pain relief drug.   The next wave of drugs to manage chronic pain literally comes from under the ocean from a sea snail called Conus Magus, which uses a venom to paralyze its prey. A synthetic version of that venom, in the form of a drug called Prialt help relieve Chris McNeil from unbearable, unexplained food-and-leg pain.   "I didn't have a life at that point. No life. I wasn't working. I couldn't hardly walk. My life was pretty much over."   McNeil is now well enough to run his own small business outside of San Francisco.   "I don't have any problem getting around. I'm not a handicapped person anymore." Prialt is only for a limited group of patients. The FDA is restricting its use to the most severe cases - AIDS and cancer patients and accident victims - for whom pain drugs, such as morphine, no longer work. Dr. Michael Leong, who was consulted for the company that makes Prialt, treated Chris O'Nill.   "Prialt truly is a targeted pain medication that can treat pain and reduce pain for patients that have failed all other therapies."   When Prialt becomes available at the end of January, it will carry the FDA's most serious warning because it can have serious side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, confusion, even hallucinations.   What's more, Prialt can only be delivered through an expensive pump implanted just under the skin in the abdomen. Some scientists hope Prialt and other drugs derived from the venom of animals such as tree frogs will ultimately be approved for broader use. From the most unlikely of places, new hope for people in the most hopeless of situations.