Will This Trial Solve Chronic Back Pain? Will This Trial Solve Chronic Back Pain?
Daniel Clauw, MD, and his colleagues hope the BEST trial will give clinicians more effective approaches to managing patients in chronic pain.Medscape Internal Medicine (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - August 1, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
Scientists Are Better Understanding the Link Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide
The lifelong consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be severe, but until the last decade, they received little attention from doctors treating military veterans. According to the Department of Defense, more than 458,000 service members were diagnosed with a TBI from 2000 to 2022, though evolving diagnostic standards likely mean that the number is higher.
TBI is the result of serious or repeated hits to the head, at any level that causes brain damage. Though it’s a physical injury, the consequences of suffering this type of head trauma are most often mental and emotional. For veterans in particular, this...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Innovations in Pediatric Chronic Pain Management Innovations in Pediatric Chronic Pain Management
The most important development in chronic pediatric pain has been the growth of rehab centers that include the medical team, practitioners from psychology, and occupational and physical therapy.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: news
6 Healthy Ways to Deal With Anger
One of the easiest things about experiencing anger is finding a colorful word or phrase to describe it: Steaming. Fuming and fired up and furious. Pissed off. Ready to flip your lid. Livid.
Such an extensive lexicon speaks to the universality of anger, one of the most primitive emotions humans experience—and in some ways one of the most complex. “People don’t like to feel angry, and most people who do feel angry want to get rid of the anger,” says Brad Bushman, a professor of communication at Ohio State University who studies the causes, consequences, and solutions to human aggression and violence. ...
Source: TIME: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health Source Type: news
The association of pain with incident falls in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - Loughran KJ, Tough D, Ryan CG, Wellburn S, Martin D, Dixon J, Harrison SL.
People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a higher prevalence of pain and a greater risk of falls than their healthy peers. As pain has been associated with an increased risk of falls in older adults, this study investigated the associa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
What's Your Risk of Coronary Artery Disease?; Chronic Pain Prediction Score
(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - July 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Study Links Greater Number of Chronic Pain Sites to Risk for Dementia
WEDNESDAY, July 12, 2023 -- A greater number of chronic pain sites is associated with an increased risk for incident all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease, according to a study recently published in BMC Medicine.
Jing Tian, from the University... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 12, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Chronic pain disorder written off by doctors as 'imaginary' drives thousands to suicide, study warns
A review published Monday in RMD Open found that fibromyalgia patients have a 27 percent greater risk of dying from accidents, infections, and suicides than the general population. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?
Often dismissed by the medical establishment, people with complex illnesses such as ME and long Covid are taking the hunt for treatments into their own handsIn 2019, years after developing the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) that had kept her bedridden in a state of chronic pain and exhaustion, Tamara Romanuk experienced something “miraculous”. After taking antibiotics prescribed to treat a separate infection, she experienced a short-term remission in symptoms. “I went from being bedbound to twirling outside,” Romanuk says. “I had no idea that life could be so different from what I’d become adjusted to.”Sh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Simon Spichak Tags: Medical research Long Covid ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Science Infectious diseases Health Source Type: news
Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue syndrome?
Often dismissed by the medical establishment, people with complex illnesses such as ME and long Covid are taking the hunt for treatments into their own handsIn 2019, years after developing the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) that had kept her bedridden in a state of chronic pain and exhaustion, Tamara Romanuk experienced something “miraculous”. After taking antibiotics prescribed to treat a separate infection, she experienced a short-term remission in symptoms. “I went from being bedbound to twirling outside,” Romanuk says. “I had no idea that life could be so different from what I’d become adjusted to.”Sh...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Simon Spichak Tags: Medical research Long Covid ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome Science Infectious diseases Health Source Type: news
Predictors of Acupuncture Effect in Patients With Chronic Pain Predictors of Acupuncture Effect in Patients With Chronic Pain
This study aimed to identify psychological and neuroimaging metrics collected before acupuncture treatment that might determine acupuncture efficacy in knee osteoarthritis.Pain (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
Analgesic Effect of Buprenorphine for Chronic Noncancer Pain Analgesic Effect of Buprenorphine for Chronic Noncancer Pain
This meta-analysis investigated whether buprenorphine is an effective analgesic for chronic noncancer pain, as compared with placebo.Anesthesia & Analgesia (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Intimate partner violence, disability, and pain: a retrospective study - Ballan MS, Freyer M, Romanelli M.
This study explores pain among female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with disabilities. Women with disabilities are subject to higher rates of IPV than nondisabled women, and experience health problems related to abuse, including chronic pain... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Rare link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid –like illness starts to gain acceptance
COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives, and the world is gearing up for a new round of boosters. But like all vaccines, those targeting the coronavirus can cause side effects in some people, including rare cases of abnormal blood clotting and heart inflammation. Another apparent complication, a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid, has been more elusive, its link to vaccination unclear and its diagnostic features ill-defined. But in recent months, what some call Long Vax has gained wider acceptance among doctors and scientists, and some are now working to better understand and treat its symptoms...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 3, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
What We Get Wrong About Drugs Like Ozempic
Imagine a new medication was developed that not only provided meaningful improvement for the debilitating chronic condition it’s prescribed, but also helps to treat and prevent a myriad of other serious diseases. Imagine this same drug markedly improved a person’s quality of life with noted reductions in pain and improvements in mobility along with increases in confidence and mood. Now imagine that the media and medical coverage of its release are almost uniformly negative or sensationalistic.
This is precisely what has happened with the new generation of anti-obesity medications, that began with Wegovy/Ozempi...
Source: TIME: Health - June 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Yoni Freedhoff Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
