Aug 24, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Worse functional status and increased probability of functional decline are seen for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with lower socioeconomic status ...

Aug 24, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pain, fatigue, depression, and anxiety are prevalent in the year following diagnosis with multiple sclerosis (MS)/clinically isolated syndrome, according to ...

Aug 23, 2021

FRIDAY, Aug. 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid tapering among long-term, higher-dose users is significantly associated with an increased risk for overdose and mental health crisis, according to a st...

Aug 20, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The former president and co-chairman of Purdue Pharma said Wednesday that his family and the company bear no responsibility for the opioid crisis in the Uni...

Aug 19, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Once-daily oral atogepant is effective for reducing the number of migraine days during a period of 12 weeks, according to a study published in the Aug. 19 i...

Aug 19, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer survivors use cannabis at slightly lower rates than individuals without a history of cancer, according to a study published online Aug. 13 in Cancer...

Aug 18, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Widespread pain, a common subtype of chronic pain, is associated with the subsequent risk for incident dementia, Alzheimer disease dementia, and stroke, acco...

Aug 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The use of 15 headache days/month as a threshold to distinguish episodic and chronic migraine does not capture the burden of illness, according to a study ...

Aug 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From 1990 to 2020, there were only minimal increases in the proportion of Black U.S. medical school faculty, according to a research letter published in th...

Aug 17, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of pediatric opioid prescriptions are considered high-risk by one or more metric, and high-volume prescribers write more than half of the prescrip...

Aug 17, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For men with moderate-to-severe chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), 20 sessions of acupuncture results in greater improvement of sympt...

Aug 17, 2021

“Tinnitus is a condition that affects approximately 10% of the adult population in the United States and can diminish one’s quality of life,” explains Hamid R. Djalilian, MD. “To date, there a...

Aug 13, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Some newer antiseizure medications (ASMs) do not appear to increase suicidality in epilepsy, according to a review published online Aug. 2 in JAMA Neurology...

Aug 13, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees who deal with patients, HHS Secretary Xavier Bece...

Aug 12, 2021

“For most patients, pain control remains unsatisfactory,” explains Feng Pan, PhD, MMed, MBBS. “The few pharmacologic analgesic options available have limited efficacy and carry a substantial ris...

Aug 11, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An individual email nudge can increase COVID-19 vaccination registration among health care workers, according to a research letter published online July 28...

Aug 10, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Neck pain does not necessarily indicate cervical musculoskeletal dysfunction when present with migraine, according to a study recently published online in Head...

Aug 10, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Neck pain does not necessarily indicate cervical musculoskeletal dysfunction when present with migraine, according to a study recently published online in Head...

Aug 10, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children whose parents or caregivers regularly smoke or vape marijuana may experience viral respiratory infections, according to a study published online Jul...

Aug 10, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with chronic migraine (CM) and overlapping pain have worse pain-related physical function and psychosocial functioning than those with localized CM,...