1.   Doctors already are helping patients die by giving them overdoses of painkilling medication, he said, and the bill merely would make the practice open and legal.

2.   He takes painkilling medication for an old back injury, which resulted from a hard landing in a helicopter.

3.   Her trance was so deep during full facial laser surgery a few weeks ago that the procedure was more extensive than usual and she needed no painkilling medications afterward.

4.   She hurt the shoulder, which required painkilling medication throughout the summer, during a practice session at the Australian Open last January.

5.   Pfizer Corp. halted some clinical trials of a painkilling medication after federal regulators voiced concern over a study suggesting the medication increased incidence of tumors in mice.

6.   Pfizer Corp. has halted some clinical trials of a painkilling medication after federal regulators voiced concern over a study suggesting the medication increased incidence of tumors in mice.

7.   Pfizer Corp. halted clinical trials of a painkilling medication after federal regulators voiced concern over a study suggesting the medication increased incidence of tumors in mice.