Pain
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Navigating chronic cough in primary care
“The most common associated comorbidities were heart failure and hypertension, but also conditions related to chronic pain, mood, and anxiety.”
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Poor sleep and chronic pain prove pesky bedfellows
Two methods used by torturers – pain infliction and sleep deprivation – harm people in ways that also are experienced by many patients with pain...
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Axial spondyloarthritis: Does visibility with x-rays make a difference in management?
“Axial spondyloarthritis is one disease, and whether it is radiographic or nonradiographic makes zero difference in the management of the patient...
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How much pain is in the mind? This doctor thinks the answer is, most
My feeling is that these psychosocial interventions are easy to try, relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, and, in my experience, often can lead to...
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Diagnosing chronic back pain: When to suspect axial spondyloarthritis
Worldwide, the average time to diagnosis was found to be up to 6 years, but patient advocacy groups say the delay can be up to 10 years or more....
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Gout: Suboptimal management a continuing problem
Pipeline drugs show promise but undertreatment, poor adherence reduce efficacy of current therapies.
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A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
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Will this trial help solve chronic back pain?
Physicians are trained that if there’s pain, there’s something wrong and we have to do surgery or there’s been some trauma. Most chronic pain is...
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Functional MRI shows that empathetic remarks reduce pain
“These results prove that empathy and support can decrease pain intensity.”
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Opioid initiation in dementia tied to an 11-fold increased risk of death
Especially in elderly patients, the risks and benefits of initiating opioid therapy should be carefully considered.
From the Journals
Fibromyalgia linked to higher mortality risk
Fibromyalgia was linked to a 27% greater risk of death from all causes in a systematic review and meta-analysis of eight studies published from...