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Pain Management

Linking Concussions to the Brain's Ability to Process Sound

Dec 23, 2016

The secret to reliably diagnosing concussions lies in the brain's ability to process sound, according to a new study by researchers from Northwestern University's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. ...

Knee Osteoarthritis: Guidelines for Surgery

Dec 16, 2016

According to current estimates, 27 million adults in the United States—or more than 10% of the adult population—have clinical osteoarthritis, a condition that ranks among the leading causes of hos...

Migraine Sufferers Have Significantly More Nitrate-Reducing Microbes in Their Mouths

Dec 08, 2016

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that the mouths of migraine sufferers harbor significantly more microbes with the ability to modify nitrates than people...

Why wounds heal more slowly with age

Nov 21, 2016

Older bodies need longer to mend. This reality of aging has been documented since World War I, with the observation that wounds heal slower in older soldiers. Yet until now, researchers have not been ...

Ultra-long acting pill releases daily doses of medicine for a month

Nov 17, 2016

Imagine swallowing a pill today that continues releasing the daily dose of a medicine you need for the next week, month or even longer. Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and their collab...

Trump & The Unlacing of the Affordable Care Act

Nov 10, 2016

Harvard analysts ponder changes across the American and global landscapes.   After a grueling 18-month election that shattered conventional wisdom and longstanding norms of civility and fai...

E-Prescribing Increases Medication Adherence

Oct 27, 2016

Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) decreases prescription errors and enhances coordination between physician and pharmacist, but what has remained unclear is how it affects patient behavior. Now a...

Electrical Stimulation for Back Pain

Oct 24, 2016

Chronic low back pain is a highly prevalent and disabling musculoskeletal pain condition, especially among older adults. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a treatment option for th...

An Opioid Therapy Compliance Checklist

Oct 24, 2016

The steady increase in use of prescription opioids in the United States over the past decade has been a key contributor to the sky-rocketing incidence of abuse of these medications. The number of opio...

Knowingly taking placebo pills eases pain, study finds

Oct 20, 2016

A new study is the first to demonstrate beneficial placebo effect for lower back pain sufferers who knew they were taking 'fake pills.' Patients who knowingly took placebos reported 30 percent less pa...

Analyzing Artificial Cervical Disc Replacement

Oct 19, 2016

Your dear friend has had pain in her left hip for the past decade, and it has only gotten worse. Her films show severe osteoarthritis, even though she had joint resurfacing just a few years ago. This ...

The Impact of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

Sep 23, 2016

According to current estimates, the number of prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United States quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, and this increase occurred in parallel with prescription opioid...

Surveying OTC Drug Use Perceptions

Sep 22, 2016

According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, about 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, an incidence rate that is higher than the combined number of people living with diabetes, hear...

There Is No Such Thing as Too Much TV in This Doctor’s Office: A Different Approach to Patient Engagement

Sep 09, 2016

A recent Accenture report found that patients in the United States are increasingly accessing their electronic health records (EHRs), with rates rising from 27% in 2014 to 45% in 2016. Most patients (...

Strategies for Physician Succession & Retirement

Sep 06, 2016

Due to the busy nature of many medical practices, planning for future events like physician succession or retirement often takes a back seat to other pressing priorities. However, planning for these c...

Examining Medicare Prescribing of Painkillers

Sep 01, 2016

According to published data, there has been a 10-fold increase in the misuse of opioid painkillers in the United States over the past 2 decades. Questions remain, however, about the causes that are dr...

Minorities & Adnominal Pain Care in EDs

Aug 31, 2016

Acute abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to visit the ED, but few studies have examined if there are racial and ethnic disparities for how this pain is managed. Prior resear...

Managing Difficult Patients

Aug 26, 2016

Regardless of the setting that a physician practices, there is a high likelihood that they will encounter difficult patients throughout their career. “We can’t blame all of these difficult encount...

Opioid-Induced Constipation in Cancer Patients

Aug 20, 2016

Cancer patients who receive opioid therapy for the management of persistent pain commonly experience opioid-induced bowel dysfunction. Constipation is one of the most frequent manifestations. Other sy...

How to prevent dependency when patients first receive opioids

Aug 03, 2016

Clinicians should think twice when prescribing opioid medication to patients for the first time to relieve pain, migraines or severe coughs. To prevent possible addiction, doctors and pharmacists shou...

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