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 [...]
An article written by Professor Gary King, and his collaborators from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, discuss the findings of an evaluation made at random of Seguro Popular, Mexico’s newly-introduced pilot universal health insurance system. Results show that household-crippling* expenditure has declined for poor [...]
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 [...]
Millions of Americans suffering from at least one chronic health problem are putting off care, not taking needed medications, and resigning themselves to feelings of isolation and depression.
So reveals a new poll commissioned by the National Council on Aging, with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the California HealthCare Foundation.
“This report presents a distressing picture [...]
Women with knee pain are less likely than men to be recommended for total knee replacement surgery, says a Canadian study that suggests gender bias may be a factor.
The University of Toronto study included a woman and a man with moderate knee osteoarthritis (OA) who reported the same pain symptoms and sought assessments from 67 [...]
In osteoporosis patients with spinal fractures, vertebroplasty provides significant pain relief and helps decrease disability, according to a new study.
Vertebroplasty involves injection of medical-grade bone cement into a fractured vertebra to shore up the fracture and provide pain relief. It’s used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures that don’t respond to conventional medical therapy with [...]
Physicians should offer drug treatment to women and men who’ve been diagnosed with osteoporosis or low bone density, says a recently issued clinical practice guideline by the American College of Physicians (ACP).
In addition, doctors should consider drug treatment to prevent fractures in patients at risk of developing osteoporosis.
The guideline authors didn’t find evidence that one [...]
Back pain :: Low back pain and back pain surgery
Surgery to relieve chronic lower back pain is no better than intensive rehabilitation and nearly twice as expensive, researchers said. Low back pain is one of the world’s most common complaints. In the 25-nation European Union, it affects over 40 million workers and accounts for nearly [...]
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