Cleveland News: Morphine kills pain -- not patients CLEVELAND, March 21 U.S. scientists have found the belief that morphine is a lethal drug that causes death when used to control a dying patient's pain is a misconception. Some prostate cancer treatments better than others An analysis of men with early prostate cancer treated at the Cleveland Clinic found that those treated with external beam radiation therapy had poorer overall survival than those treated with radioactive seed implants (brachytherapy) or by surgical removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy). Breath Test May Help Spot Lung Cancer Cleveland Clinic doctors report promising results from a breath test designed to spot lung cancer. Niacin Expected To Grow As Heart Treatment A Cleveland doctor says use of niacin as a cholesterol drug is likely to increase following the failure of a drug that was found to increase heart problems. Laryngeal Cancer Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic have reported that GERD is significantly associated with the development of laryngeal cancer. The details of this study appeared in the September 2006 issue of...