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Pregabalin to Be Recommended as 1st-line Drug in New GLs for Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

August 8, 2011
In a seminar on neuropathic pain cosponsored by Eisai and Pfizer Japan in Tokyo on July 14, Setsuro Ogawa, director of Surugadai Nihon University Hospital and professor of anesthesiology at Nihon University School of Medicine, revealed that the peripheral neuropathic…

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