Nov 05, 2020

In part 1 of this opinion piece, we described inherent and potential challenges of the equity of African American (AA) men in headache medicine including headache disparities, mistrust, understudied/l...

Nov 05, 2020

The main symptom in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is inflammatory back pain, caused principally by inflammation of the sacroiliac joints and the spine. However, not all back pain in pa...

Nov 05, 2020

Introduction Opioids are used for severe forms of acute and cancer pain. Over the last years, their potential use in patients with noncancer pain such as those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been ...

Nov 05, 2020

The objective of the review is to evaluate circulating levels of leptin in people diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia syndrome and to investigate the diff...

Nov 05, 2020

The authors conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis to answer the question: Which motion-preserving surgical strategy, (1) four-corner fusion, (2) proximal row carpectomy, or (3) total wrist arthropla...

Nov 05, 2020

To estimate the baseline rates of vascular events among people with migraine.Several novel medications that target the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) pathway are approved to treat people with ...

Nov 05, 2020

Etanercept, a tumor necrosis factor inhibitor, is an effective drug for patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and nitrotyrosine (NT) are pro-inflam...

Nov 02, 2020

Intrathecal morphine-induced pruritus can cause significant discomfort in parturients and is refractory to conventional antipruritic treatment. This systematic review and network meta-analysis evaluat...

Nov 02, 2020

Migraines are caused by neurological and vascular dysfunction, with a side or both sides of the head pain recurrent attack, often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light, and sound allergy as the chara...

Nov 02, 2020

Headache is one of the most prevalent and disabling conditions. Its optimal management requires a coordinated and comprehensive response by health systems, but there is still a wide variability that c...

Nov 02, 2020

OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX) has become a mainstream treatment for chronic migraine (CM). Patients often have varied expectations for treatment success but little is known about how these initial impressi...

Nov 02, 2020

Little research has been conducted in Ukraine since the 1990s to understand the organization of drug market and its implications for people who inject drugs (PWID). In this study, we explore how PWID ...

Nov 02, 2020

A recent study found that merely possessing a placebo analgesic reduces pain. The current study tested for a possible moderator of this effect. Specifically, does the mere possession of a placebo anal...

Nov 02, 2020

Overall, the literature on the effectiveness of psychological treatments in general and those for fibromyalgia in particular has been dominated by research designs that focus on large groups and explo...

Nov 02, 2020

Patients with fibromyalgia (FM) suffer from chronic pain, which limits physical activity and is associated with disturbed sleep. However, the relationship between physical activity, pain and sleep is ...

Nov 02, 2020

In the broader list of cognitive concerns, neuropsychological testing has shown that attentional impairment may have a specific burden in Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). Preliminary observations have rep...

Nov 02, 2020

Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT) programmes are regarded as a gold standard treatment for people living with Opioid Use Disorders (OUDs). However, OAT programmes are often unavailable or poorly implemen...

Nov 02, 2020

Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are multifactorial chronic disorders whose etiopathogenesis essentially derives from the alteration of several signalling pathways and the co-occurrence of genetic, e...

Nov 02, 2020

Interleukin (IL)-38 belongs to the IL-1 family and is part of the IL-36 subfamily due to its binding to the IL-36 Receptor (IL-1R6). In the current study, we assessed the anti-inflammatory properties ...

Nov 02, 2020

To assess MRI appearance of the dermal allograft and its correlation with clinical outcome following superior capsular reconstruction (SCR).This is a retrospective study of patients who underwent SCR ...