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Noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals & their patients, providing clinical news, research, and education for a better understanding of evidence-based pain-management practices.
- Added on: Aug 2nd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Stewart B. Leavitt, MA, PhD
- Listed in: Medicine General Health
- Tags: arthritis back pain chronic pain pain treatment opioid therapy nonopioid therapy
Recent Posts
Want Less Pain? Rip Off Adhesive Bandage Quickly
Australian researchers, in somewhat of a holiday jesting spirit, have answered one of pain medicine’s oldest questions: Is quickly ripping off an adhesive bandage strip (aka, Band-Aid®) less painful than the slow tug method? Faster appears to be b...
Texting A Real Pain in the Neck (and Shoulders)
Telephone text messaging, or texting, is preferred over talking by many younger persons these days. However, a new study suggests that many of them are developing serious neck and/or shoulder pain as a result.Researchers from Pennsylvania presented e...
Pain Relieving Coxibs Counter Aspirin’s Benefits
Millions of persons are prescribed COX-2 inhibitors, or coxibs, like Celebrex® for arthritis and other pain. However, coxibs may undermine the anti-clotting benefits of low-dose aspirin taken daily to reduce risk of heart attack or stroke in these p...
Racial, Ethnic Disparities in Pain Care Examined
According to a recent research review, racial and ethnic inequities persist in the treatment of all pain conditions, across all age groups, and in all treatment settings throughout the United States. Barriers to optimal pain management for minority-g...
Canadian Study Distorts Rx-Opioid-Related Deaths
Understanding Evidence-Based Pain Management (EBPM)Reports of increasing deaths associated with prescribed opioid analgesics are of concern, but also may portray a distorted picture of the scope and urgency of the problem. This was evident in a recen...
REMS: When Elephants Prance, Ants Take a Pounding
At a meeting last Friday, December 4, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called upon pharmaceutical company representatives to report on their progress in developing a REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) for extended-release...
