Sep 30, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Non-COVID-19 hospital admissions decreased considerably with the onset of COVID-19, with declines generally similar across patient demographic subgroups f...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For women with chronic pelvic pain, gabapentin treatment does not result in significantly lower pain scores and is associated with more side effects than pl...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Early stages of the U.K. COVID-19 lockdown had negative consequences for people with musculoskeletal conditions, according to a letter to the editor publish...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Actual health care costs increase up to 20-fold in the six months after a gunshot injury versus the six months before, according to a study published online...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New drug applications (NDAs) for prescription opioids for pain have been based on pivotal trials of short or intermediate duration, often in narrowly define...

Sep 25, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients with rheumatic diseases face significant challenges in their daily lives, including affordability issues, lifestyle and activity limitations,...

Sep 19, 2020

FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Jaw bone density and volume are similar between women who had botulinum toxin (BTX) injections to treat temporomandibular muscle and joint disorders (TMJDs) ...

Sep 07, 2020

For a paper published in Pain Medicine, my colleagues and I developed a mind-body intervention, based on principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), for young women with moderate-to-severe prima...

Sep 01, 2020

Revision is the first in more than 40 years For the first time since 1979, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised its definition of pain, which consists of a short statem...

Sep 01, 2020

FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Symptomatic low back pain (LBP) resolves in 82 percent of patients with hip and back pain who undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to a study prese...

Sep 01, 2020

FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors should tell patients and caregivers about the overdose antidote naloxone when they prescribe opioid painkillers such as Percocet and OxyContin and med...

Aug 31, 2020

MONDAY, Aug. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Postoperative follow-up telephone calls (TFU) to patients after Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) do not improve patient satisfaction, according to a research l...

Aug 31, 2020

MONDAY, Aug. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer and the International Society of Oral Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) have issued updated recommendations for...

Aug 26, 2020

Previous studies indicate that chronic pain, including fibromyalgia (FM), negatively impacts quality of life (QoL) for the reportedly affected 3%-6% of the world population. “There is supportive evi...

Aug 22, 2020

FRIDAY, Aug. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing common orthopedic sports procedures, a multimodal, nonopioid pain protocol featuring little or no use of opioids is feasible for manag...

Aug 21, 2020

Revision is the first in more than 40 years For the first time since 1979, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised its definition of pain, which consists of a short statem...

Aug 21, 2020

A multimodal approach is most often necessary to adequately manage chronic nonspecific neck pain and low back pain (LBP). The treatment plan may include medications with differing sites of action, phy...

Aug 11, 2020

Approval limited to use in ’controlled clinical settings’ WASHINGTON — Oliceridine, an intravenous opioid, received FDA approval for short-term use in hospitals or "controlled clini...

Aug 10, 2020

The rate of infective endocarditis (IE) in people who inject drugs (PWID) has been rapidly increasing in recent years, explains Michael Silverman, MD. Dr. Silverman and colleagues hypothesized that th...

Aug 08, 2020

FRIDAY, Aug. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Life expectancy for 2009 to 2011 was 78.60 years for the total U.S. population, with the highest life expectancy for Hispanic women, according to the Aug. 7 Na...