Dear Roz -

That last little article you posted is very cool, and it links with a bunch of interesting stuff. Thank you very much for posting it.

That said, this article, first presented at a National Academy of Sciences colloquium "The Neurobiology of Pain," held December 11-13, 1998, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA, serves once again as a sad reminder of the 15 to 20 year lag time between basic research and FDA approval of new classes of medications.

Mike