Pain Management
Nov 17, 2021
TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From 2007 to 2019, there was an increase in baseline depressive symptoms among first-year resident physicians but a decrease in the average change in depress...
Nov 17, 2021
TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From January through June 2021, 31.1 million people of all ages were uninsured (9.6 percent), which was not significantly different from 2020, according to e...
Nov 11, 2021
TUESDAY, Nov. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People with difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that does not respond to one Janus kinase inhibitor (JAKi) may achieve a similar response by either c...
Nov 11, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients report increased depressive symptomatology in the migraine headache phase of a migraine attack, according to a study published online Nov. 4 in th...
Nov 11, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A previous court ruling that ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay Oklahoma $465 million for the company's role in the opioid epidemic was tossed out by the...
Nov 03, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A California judge has ruled against local governments that sued drug companies for billions of dollars to recover their costs of dealing with the opioid ep...
Nov 03, 2021
TUESDAY, Nov. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with chronic pain conditions receiving long-term opioid therapy, a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention produces modest, but sustained, ...
Nov 01, 2021
More than 50 years ago, Melzack and Wall proposed the gate control theory of pain inhibition,1 opening the door to the development of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) as an intervention designed to reduc...
Oct 31, 2021
FRIDAY, Oct. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- At five years, symptom severity does not differ, but rates of subsequent surgical treatment are lower in patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome recei...
Oct 16, 2021
FRIDAY, Oct. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From 2015 to 2019, the prevalence of buprenorphine misuse trended downward, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in JAMA Network Open.Beth Han, M.D.,...
Oct 13, 2021
TUESDAY, Oct. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Administering oral acetaminophen to all pediatric patients undergoing tonsillectomy during the preoperative admission process reduces intravenous acetaminoph...
Oct 13, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Integrating intraoperative electroauricular acupuncture is feasible for minimizing postoperative opioid usage among patients undergoing total knee arthropl...
Oct 09, 2021
FRIDAY, Oct. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Osmophobia is prevalent among patients with different migraine subtypes, and it also occurs in some patients with tension-type headaches, according to a study ...
Oct 09, 2021
FRIDAY, Oct. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost one-quarter of U.S. adults report arthritis, according to research published in the Oct. 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Oct 01, 2021
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic back pain, psychological treatment may provide substantial and durable pain relief, according to a study published online Sept. 29 in...
Sep 30, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- By notifying pharmacy staff about discontinued prescriptions, providers and staff at health systems may contribute to medication safety, according to a st...
Sep 23, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have an increased risk for prescription opioid use and misuse, according to a study published i...
Sep 21, 2021
TUESDAY, Sept. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For U.S. Food and Drug Administration applications that went through multiple review cycles because the evidence for clinical efficacy was initially deemed ...
Sep 21, 2021
MONDAY, Sept. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An estimated 15.5 million U.S. adults younger than 65 years went without medication due to high drug costs, according to the results of a survey released by ...
Sep 18, 2021
FRIDAY, Sept. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep disturbance in older adults is associated with physical pain and depression, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in the Journal of Clinical N...