Pain In The (ER) Battlefield: AcelRx Reports Positive ARX-04 Results

AcelRx reports fast-acting, pain-reducing data for ARX-04 in emergency room-treated trauma patients, which is the setting that most closely resembles battlefield situations experienced by personnel in the US military – the Phase III program's co-funder.

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The US military kicked in $17m to support the Phase III development of AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s ARX-04 and the most recently reported data for the fast-acting pain drug seem to show that it could meet the specialty customer's needs for the product.

The military did not require a single-arm, open-label clinical trial in the emergency room setting, but study is the closest...

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