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Real-time prescription data may cut opioid abuse
• Drug News • • Pain • Sep 06 12
Real-time prescription data appear to have helped Canadian pharmacists stop “doctor shoppers” from getting excessive amounts of opioid painkillers and tranquilizers, according to a…
New attack on pain
• Arthritis • • Pain • Aug 22 12
The research relates to a family of molecules firstly discovered in Melbourne that applied to blood cell development. One of these, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating…
FDA Closes Door on Unapproved Pain Meds
• Drug Abuse • • Pain • Jul 06 12
Some oxycodone - a drug frequently in headlines of news articles about addiction - has been freely marketed without FDA approval, a problem that…
Extra weight comes with more knee pain, stiffness
• Obesity • • Pain • Jun 28 12
People who put on weight are more likely to develop knee pain than those who stay the same or lose weight, says a new…
Hot water, not pee, eases jellyfish stings
• Pain • Jun 21 12
There’s a lot of folklore on how to treat a jellyfish sting, but the science suggests your best bets may be hot water and…
How does exercise affect nerve pain?
• Neurology • • Pain • Jun 02 12
Exercise helps to alleviate pain related to nerve damage (neuropathic pain) by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors, suggests an experimental study in the…
Emergency room CT exams have increased in children with abdominal pain
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Pain • Apr 23 12
Computed tomography (CT) utilization in pediatric patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain increased in emergency departments each year between 1999 and 2007, according to a…
Hyperbaric Oxygen Could Provide Relief of Chronic Pain
• Pain • Apr 23 12
Chronic pain affects about 76 million people in the U.S. and carries an economic burden of nearly $100 billion annually. The most frequently used…
5 S’s can help ease pain of infant vaccines
• Children's Health • • Pain • Apr 18 12
Watching your baby get a vaccine can be painful for parents, too.
But a new study, published in the medical journal Pediatrics, has found…
Spinal injections may not aid lower back pain
• Backache • • Pain • Apr 17 12
A new study suggests that injections of steroids or arthritis drugs in the spine may not provide much extra relief for people with chronic…
Painkiller Opana, new scourge of rural America
• Drug Abuse • • Pain • Mar 27 12
Back in high school in Houston, Texas, C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends…
Pain relief: Poor evidence for non-drug approaches in labor
• Pain • Mar 14 12
There is better evidence for the effectiveness of drug-based approaches for relieving labour pains than non-drug approaches. These are the findings of an all-encompassing…
Where Pain Lives: Chronic Pain Tougher to Manage in Poor Neighborhoods
• Pain • Mar 03 12
Living in a poor neighborhood was linked with worse chronic pain for young adults, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health…
Reformulated Imatinib Eliminates Morphine Tolerance in Lab Studies
• Drug News • • Pain • Feb 20 12
By reformulating the common cancer drug imatinib (Gleevec®), researchers have eliminated morphine tolerance in rats – an important step toward improving the effectiveness of…
Study of One Million Americans Shows Obesity and Pain Linked
• Obesity • • Pain • Jan 27 12
A clear association between obesity and pain - with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals - was found in a study…
Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says Stanford study of electronic medical records
• Gender: Female • • Pain • Jan 23 12
Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a huge collection…
Really? The Claim: Listening to Music Can Relieve Pain
• Alternative Medicine • • Pain • Jan 03 12
Can the right sonata soothe the pain of a medical operation?
A growing number of doctors have been using music in clinical settings, believing…
For Neck Pain, Chiropractic and Exercise Are Better Than Drugs
• Pain • Jan 03 12
Seeing a chiropractor or engaging in light exercise relieves neck pain more effectively than relying on pain medication, new research shows.
The new study…
More older Americans have knee pain, replacement
• Arthritis • • Pain • Dec 06 11
Older Americans are increasingly complaining of aching knees, and getting those knees replaced, even though X-ray evidence of knee arthritis is not on the…
Children suffer unnecessarily from chronic postoperative pain
• Children's Health • • Pain • • Surgery • Oct 27 11
Are children suffering needlessly after surgery? UC Irvine anesthesiologists who specialize in pediatric care believe so.
An operation can be one of the most…
Can breastfeeding reduce pain in preterm infants?
• Children's Health • • Pain • Oct 19 11
Poorly managed pain in the neonatal intensive care unit has serious short- and long-term consequences, causing physiological and behavioral instability in preterm infants and…
We discount the pain of people we don’t like
• Pain • Oct 03 11
If a patient is not likeable, will he or she be taken less seriously when exhibiting or complaining about pain? Reporting in the October…
Chronic pain: Watch out before accepting diagnosis and treatment
• Pain • Sep 08 11
A new commentary published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) argues that patients should be diligent and demand proof of safety and benefit…
Gene that controls chronic pain identified
• Genetics • • Pain • Sep 08 11
Embargoed until 2:00pm U.S. Eastern Time (7:00pm London time), Thursday 8 September 2011
A gene responsible for regulating chronic pain, called HCN2, has been…
Mom better than dad at soothing baby’s pain: study
• Children's Health • • Pain • Sep 08 11
Preemies show less pain when mom holds them than when dad tries to comfort them, according to a new study of babies having blood…