A study in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests that sleep problems lead to increased pain and fatigue in cancer patients. The results indicate that interventions aimed at trouble sleeping would be expected to improve both pain and fatigue in this patient population.
Results show that more than half the [...]
Appeals from hospice experts mean an unapproved drug, one of 14 given recent warning, will remain on the market, agency says
Bowing to the pleas of hospice experts, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has backed off its intent to remove from the market an unapproved liquid morphine painkiller given to dying patients.
Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, deputy [...]
A simple technique could help doctors differentiate between patients with different causes of back pain and thus improve treatment, a study suggests.
Researchers writing in PLoS Medicine have devised “bedside” tests which distinguish between neuropathic – nerve damage – and other causes of pain.
Neuropathic pain is commonly described as “burning” or “stabbing” but it is [...]
Patients with chronic pain who took part in a collaborative care intervention that included patient and clinician education and symptom monitoring and feedback to the primary care physician had improvements in pain-related disability and intensity, compared to usual care, according to a study in the March 25 issue of JAMA.
Chronic noncancer pain is associated with [...]
Successful intervention included doctor training, patient education and feedback
A team effort may be a better approach to helping people battle chronic pain, new research suggests.
In a study including more than 400 U.S. veterans, researchers found that a collaborative strategy for chronic pain management — one that included education for patients in pain and their [...]
New findings may significantly improve the safety of methadone, a drug widely used to treat cancer pain and addiction to heroin and other opioid drugs, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Washington in Seattle.
The researchers discovered that the body processes methadone differently than previously believed. [...]
Aetna has announced that, based on input from the AGA Institute and discussions with a number of gastroenterologists, it will not implement Clinical Policy Bulletin 0740 on April 1, 2008, as planned. This policy would have restricted the use of an anesthesia professional in standard upper or lower endoscopic procedures, including colonoscopy, for average-risk patients.
Last [...]
New research to be carried out at The University of Nottingham could have a major impact on the way that people struggling with low back pain are helped to stay in work.
Back pain is one of the main causes of absence from work in the UK. In 2004-5 approximately 34,000 people in the East Midlands [...]
Patients suffering from fibromyalgia could benefit significantly from regular exercise in a heated swimming pool, a study published in the open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy shows. The findings suggest a cost effective way of improving quality of life for patients with this often-debilitating disorder.
Fibromyalgia is a common, painful syndrome, with no known cause [...]
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