Category: Pain

Back pain medications do more harm than good

… and arguably not of any clinical significance,” she said. The work by researchers at The George Institute for Global Health is the latest study to question the effectiveness of medicines for treating back pain. Yet most clinical guidelines recommend …

Does expecting more pain make it more intense? Factors associated…

Does expecting more pain make it more intense? Factors associated with the first week pain trajectories after breast cancer surgery. The aim of this study was to identify clinical risk factors for unfavorable pain trajectories after breast cancer surgery in order to better understand the association between pain expectation, psychological distress, and acute postoperative pain.

Nierman Practice Management Hosts 2 CE Seminars for Dental Sleep…

The practice management company held their ABC: Airway, Bruxism, and Craniofacial Pain and CrossCoding: Unlocking the Code to Medical Billing in Dentistry courses for dentists and team members Nierman Practice Mgmt hosted the ABC: Airway, Bruxism, and Craniofacial Pain seminar and CrossCoding: Unlocking the Code to Medical Billing in Dentistry seminar in Jupiter, FL. Nierman Practice Management hosted the ABC: Airway, Bruxism, and Craniofacial Pain seminar and CrossCoding: Unlocking the Code to Medical Billing in Dentistry seminar in Jupiter, FL.

Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings

PixarBio Corporation CEO Frank Reynolds to Present NeuroRelease a Morphine Replacement, Non-Opiate, Non Addictive Pain Treatment at the 2017 NobleCon13 Investor Conference in Boca Raton, FL on Monday, January 30, 2017 )–PixarBio Corporation developers of NeuroReleaseTM, a morphine replacement, non-opiate/opioid, non-addictive pain treatment with… )–Mercantil Commercebank, the fourth largest commercial bank headquartered in Florida and among the top 2% of banks nationally ranked by asset size, has changed i… Global Point-of-Care Testing Market Trends and Forecast to 2024: Market is Expected to Reach USD 38.2 Billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 9.5% – Research and Markets )–Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Point-of-Care Testing Market – Trends and Forecast To 2024” report to their offering.

‘Red Yeast Rice’ Statin Alternative Not Harmless

A natural cholesterol -lowering supplement called red yeast rice could pose the same health risks to users as statin drugs, a new study contends. Red yeast rice could increase risk of muscle injury or liver damage, Italian researchers reported after reviewing 13 years of patient data.

Bill removes vets from seeking out human drug abuse

After a black Labrador retriever named Deeoge fell twice, his owners told his veterinarian that offering the dog Vicodin had seemed to ease his pain. So Dr. Randall Snyder started prescribing the pain reliever along with other medications, according to a settlement between Snyder and the state’s veterinary board over alleged misconduct.

Drug of choice could end up a deadly mix

… giving four to seven doses of naloxone to reverse the overdose. Sometimes it doesn’t work. In Columbiana County, the Health Department has made Narcan kits available to local EMS and law enforcement agencies in response to the presence of fentanyl …

Fake News Comes To Addiction Treatment

… author is Douglas Jacobs, a resident physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who also contributes to the Health Affairs blog. Jacobs relates the frustration and sadness he experienced when treating “Mr. B.,” a heroin addict, in a primary …

Fake News Comes To Addiction Treatment

… author is Douglas Jacobs, a resident physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who also contributes to the Health Affairs blog. Jacobs relates the frustration and sadness he experienced when treating “Mr. B.,” a heroin addict, in a primary …

Ottawa mulls unconventional B.C.-style therapies for opioid addiction

Providing pharmaceutical-grade opioids in a medical setting has been shown to result in physical- and mental-health improvements for people who do not respond to conventional treatments. Providing pharmaceutical-grade opioids in a medical setting has been shown to result in physical- and mental-health improvements for people who do not respond to conventional treatments.

A ‘civil war’ on painkillers is raging in the medical community

In this June 14, 2011 file photo, various prescription drugs on the automated pharmacy assembly line at Medco Health Solutions in Willingboro, N.J. All three are patients struggling with chronic pain, but what they are describing is not physical agony but a war inside the medical community that is threatening their access to painkillers – and, by extension, their work, their relationships, and their sanity. Two years after the United States saw a record 27,000 deaths involving prescription opioid medications and heroin, doctors and regulators are sharply restricting access to drugs like Oxycontin and Vicodin.

Back pain: A common problem with serious challenges

This subject was discussed in this column in the Independent in the May 14, 2016, issue titled a multispecialty approach to educated and evidence-based medical treatment as pertinent to pain therapy. A recently discussed condition and treatment in a non-medical magazine presents the Primary Care evaluation and treatment and documents the opioid problem even before it was widely appreciated.