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27 Sep
Using Marijuana and Tobacco for Chronic Pain Relief May Backfire
A new study out of Duke University finds many patients with chronic pain are co-using pot and tobacco, and the combination may actually amplify pain in the long run.
12 Aug
Are Women Being Taken Less Seriously than Men When It Comes to Pain?
A new study finds women are less likely to receive pain medication prescriptions compared to male patients with the same complaints.
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Virtual reality (VR) might be able to provide cancer patients significant pain relief, a new study says.
A small group of cancer patients reported a decrease in their pain after using VR headsets that allowed them to explore realistic underwater scenes, according to findings published recently in the ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 28, 2025
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There are a ton of suggestions out there for soothing an aching lower back -- acupuncture, heat, cannabinoids, muscle relaxants, TENS electrical pulses, dry cupping, opioids, massage and more.
But not much actually eases back pain, including those suggestions, according to a new evidence review.
Only painkillers like aspirin or ibuprofe...
There appears to be limited evidence supporting the use of epidural steroid injections for certain types of chronic lower back pain, new guidance from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) finds.
Epidural steroid injections are treatments in which a steroid or corticosteroid medication is injected into the spine.
In a systematic review published Feb. 12 in the journal&...
The tragic early death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry from a ketamine overdose in 2023 has swung a spotlight on the dangers of unsupervised use of the potent anesthetic.
Now, America's leading group representing anesthesiologists is issuing new guidelines on proper use of the drug.
Keta...
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- February 12, 2025
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Ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, some good news for the athletes: NFL players are largely avoiding opioid-based pain relievers when injuries strike.
A new study of data from the 2021 and 2022 seasons finds the National Football League's efforts to curb addictive opioid use is working, with the drugs comprising less than 3% of all pain meds prescribed.
"Moreover, only 10 per...
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- February 7, 2025
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People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than white patients, an unintended consequence of efforts to stem America’s opioid epidemic.
Communities of color have a 40% to 45% lower distribution of commonly prescribed opioids, compared to majority white communities, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 23 in the journal
People with low back pain might want to look into the ancient Chinese mind-body movement exercise known as qigong, a new study published recently suggests.
Qigong is similar to tai chi, in that it uses slow-flowing exercises and still, meditative postures to ease tension and increase flexi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 28, 2025
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A fecal transplant could help people whose type 1 diabetes has fouled up their digestive system.
Swallowing a handful of capsules filled with donor feces helped ease gut pain, nausea, bloating and diarrhea stemming from diabetes, researchers reported in a study published recently in the journal ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 13, 2025
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New British research shows that too much of a good medication can be a bad thing.
In the study, repeated doses of paracetamol, known as acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) in the United States, raised the risk of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and kidney complications among those over 65.
The findings, published recently in the journal
Abortion pills are safe and effective, but some pain will be part of the process for most women.
However, many women are surprised by exactly how much pain is involved in a medication abortion, a new study says.
They’re frequently told that the pain is akin to period cra...
The ancient Japanese practice of reiki "energy healing" might help some cancer patients deal with the pain that can come with infusion therapies, new research shows.
"Outpatients receiving reiki during infusion reported clinically significant improvements in all symptoms, high levels of satisfaction and a qualitatively positive healing experience," reported a team led by
Blocking blood flow to the site of knee arthritis can reduce pain and potentially prevent the need for knee replacement surgery, a new study says.
The procedure, called genicular artery embolization (GAE), improved patients’ quality of life by 87% and their pain ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 3, 2024
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Many people turn to mindfulness meditation to help them manage their chronic pain, a practice that’s been used for centuries.
However, it’s been an open question whether meditation is simply functioning as a placebo, rather than actually quelling pain.
Now, a new study involving brain scans has revealed that's not the case.
Yoga can help ease chronic low back pain, even if the classes are conducted online, a new study shows.
Guidelines recommend using physical therapy or yoga to treat lower back pain before moving on to painkillers, but it can be tough for some people to make it to a yoga s...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 1, 2024
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The GLP-1 drug semaglutide can help obese people manage debilitating knee arthritis, a new trial has found.
People who received weekly injections of semaglutide -- the active agent in the diabetes drug Ozempic and the weight-loss medication Wegovy -- had a nearly 14% decrease in their body weight after 68 weeks, compared with 3% of people given a placebo, results showed. The trial was fun...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 1, 2024
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Brain scans can provide early warning of who will develop chronic pain following a whiplash injury, a new study finds.
Higher levels of “cross talk” between two specific brain regions within one to three days of the injury increases the risk that pain will...
If you're in chronic pain and believe medical marijuana to be the solution, there's a good chance your doctor might not agree.
In a new survey of people living in states where medical cannabis is legal, 71% of people with chronic pain thought the federal government should legaliz...
Avoiding couches and chairs might be a good way of keeping your back pain from getting worse, new research suggests.
Finnish researchers found that when people with back pain sat even a little less each day, their pain was less like to progress over the next six months.
“If you have a tendency for back pain or excessive sitting and are concerned for your back health, you can t...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- October 3, 2024
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Controversial fentanyl lollipops and similar products will no longer be made by drug makers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced.
Known as TIRF medications, these products contain fentanyl and are used to manage breakthrough pain in cancer patients who have become tolerant to around-the-clock opioid therapy, the FDA said in a
Doctors sometimes turn to antidepressants as a means of easing older people's physical pain, but a new expert review finds there's little evidence to support the practice.
Antidepressants may even come with hazards for seniors who don't need them, said researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia.
"Harms of antidepressant use in older people are well documented," said stud...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 20, 2024
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An arthritis sufferer’s joints start to get ornery when the weather turns colder, getting stiff and achy as the mercury drops.
Cold weather doesn’t cause arthritis, but it can make it worse, experts say.
"Our joints operate best in temperate weather," said Dr. Mariko Ishimori, interim director at the Ceda...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 20, 2024
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A meditation technique called mindful breathing can help cancer patients manage their pain and anxiety, a new study finds.
Cancer patients who engaged in 20 minutes of mindful breathing experienced a greater reduction in pain than those who weren’t taught the tech...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 21, 2024
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Female patients are consistently less likely to receive painkillers than men with similar complaints, a new study finds.
An analysis of more than 21,000 patient records revealed that women across every age group are less likely than men to be prescribed pain meds, even if they’re suffering similar ailments, researchers reported recently in the
Plenty of women know that having an IUD inserted in their uterus can be an excruciating experience, but new government guidance issued Thursday may soon make the experience less painful for many.
For the first time, updated recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise doctors to counsel wo...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- August 8, 2024
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Nearly 1 in every 10 chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioids winds up addicted to the painkillers at some point, a new review finds.
Further, nearly 1 in 3 will show symptoms of opioid addiction, researchers reported Aug. 7 in the journal
COVID-19 doesn’t raise a person’s risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome more than any other infectious disease, a new study finds.
The rate of chronic fatigue syndrome following a brief illness was roughly the same between people who caught COVID and those who came down with some ...
The knee develops differently in men and women, with sex-specific distinctions in the joint appearing as early as childhood, a new study finds.
Taking these differences into account among girls could help prevent knee arthritis for women later in life, researchers say.
Gender-based differences in knee cartilage and ligaments develop prior to puberty and can’t be explained by ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 24, 2024
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Wartime appears to increase the risk of chronic pain for military women, a new study suggests.
Active-duty servicewomen who served between 2006 and 2013"a period of heightened combat deployments"had a significantly increased risk of chronic pain compared to women serving at other times, according to results published July 5 in the journal
Tending to a teething baby is tough: Parents want to help, but might not be sure how.
Teething typically begins around 4 to 7 months of age, as the 20 or so "baby teeth" that will emerge by the age of 3 begin to form.
The usual signs of teething include "mild irritability, a low-grade fever, drooling and an urge to chew something hard," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in...
A new form of psychotherapy appears to work even better at treating chronic pain in older adults than gold-standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a new study finds.
U.S. veterans who received emotional awareness and expression ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 14, 2024
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When there's pain, pressure and pounding in your head, you might think the worst: Is it a brain tumor?
Probably not, a Penn State physician assures.
Headache in and of itself is not a common sign of a tumor, because the brain itself doesn't feel pain, said Dr. John Messmer, medical director at Penn State H...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- June 9, 2024
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Many kids can get an occasional upset tummy, but what if your child's stomachaches are more persistent?
Dr. David Ziring, associate director of the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's in Los Angeles, offers up possible diagnoses that doctors should look out for.
Fi...
A blood test could help doctors spot the signs of knee osteoarthritis at least eight years before it shows up on X-rays, a new study claims.
After analyzing the blood of 200 white British women, half diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis and half without, researchers discovered a small number of biomarkers distinguished the women with osteoarthritis from those without it.
"We found we ...
- Lori Saxena HealthDay Reporter
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- April 29, 2024
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Among U.S. women with migraine, a third say the attacks tend to coincide with their periods, a new survey finds.
Migraines that occur during menstruation are often frequent and severe, but only about one in five respondents said they used medications aimed at preventing the headaches.
"If you have migraines related to your menstrual cycle, discuss this with your gynecologist or neu...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- April 15, 2024
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Some pain-relieving skin products contain potentially harmful doses of the numbing agent lidocaine and should be avoided, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
These creams, gels, sprays and soaps are marketed for topical use to relieve the pain of cosmetic procedures like microdermabrasion, laser hair removal, tattooing and
Breathing and relaxation techniques may offer relief to some patients battling Long COVID.
In a new, small study of 20 patients, biofeedback therapy relieved both the physical and psychological symptoms of Long COVID, researchers said. Many participants had been dealing with symptoms for more than a year.
"Our biggest hope is that we've identified a way to alleviate chronic physical...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 18, 2024
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Norwegians are increasingly asking surgeons for a nip, tuck or implant, and many -- especially men -- have pain that lingers long after their procedure, a new survey shows.
Researchers asked 1,746 adults in Norway whether they had undergone cosmetic surgery and how it turned out.
One in 10 said they had had a cosmetic procedure -- from breast reductions or implants to facelifts and ...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- March 13, 2024
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Endometriosis causes crippling pain in women, with some spending up to a month of every year debilitated by it.
"We're talking about pain that's beyond 'I took two ibuprofen and went to work,'"said Dr. Kristin R...
It's well known that long-acting opioid meds raise the odds for addiction in users -- including folks dealing with pain after an orthopedic surgery.
Now, new research suggests that patients fare just as well if doctors prescribe less risky immediate-release opioids following a knee replacement surgery.
People with recurring urinary tract infections frequently have persistent pain, even after antibiotics have cleared the harmful bacteria from their system.
Now, researchers have figured out why this perplexing problem occurs.
It appears that an overgrowth of highly sensitive nerve cells can occur in the bladder as a result of frequent UTIs, researchers report March 1 in the journal ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 4, 2024
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Of course grief can ravage your mind, but science shows it can also weaken your body, leaving you open to illness.
"As humans, we are strongly motivated to seek out social bonds that are warm, dependable, friendly and supportive,"explained George Slavich. He directs the Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- February 26, 2024
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Being active may help ease ongoing cancer pain.
That's the key takeaway from a study of more 10,600 people with a history of cancer and over 51,000 without the disease.
A team led by Erika Rees-Punia of the American Cancer Society and
New guidelines from the American Dental Association (ADA) are cracking down on the use of opioids for tooth pain.
The guidelines say that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) taken alone or alongside acetaminophen should be the first-line treatment for managing short-term dental pain in teenagers and adults.
The available medical evidence indicates that those medications c...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 6, 2024
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The first new kind of pain medication in over two decades could be on the horizon for patients, with promising results announced Tuesday from a company trial.
For now, the drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is called VX-548. But in trials of patients undergoing abdominoplasties (tummy tucks) and foot bunion surgeries, VX-548 performed better than placebo at easing post-op pain, with no majo...
Factors like sleep, energy levels and stress can predict the onset of a migraine headache, a new study finds.
Those factors differed from the morning to the afternoon and evening, however.
Poor perceived sleep quality, lower-than-usual quality of sleep and lower-than-usual energy levels are associated with a morning migraine, according to the report published online Jan. 24 in the j...
Back pain is a double-edged sword.
In most cases, it disappears within about six weeks. But when it doesn't, low back pain is likely to bother you for the long haul, researchers warn.
"The good news is that most episodes of back pain recover, and this is the case even if you have already had back pain for a couple of months," said researcher
Folks with life-threatening chronic illnesses can receive effective support over the telephone as they manage their condition day by day, a new clinical trial finds.
Seriously ill veterans living with lung or heart disease experienced significant improvements in depression, anxiety and quality of life from a palliative care program delivered by phone, researchers found.
"While we do...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 19, 2024
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Expecting moms who often turn to acetaminophen for their aches and pains are more likely to wind up with kids who have behavioral issues, a new study warns.
Children between the ages of 2 and 4 were more likely to have attention and behavioral problems if their mothers frequently used acetaminophen during pregnancy, researchers found.
"The kinds of behaviors the caregivers reported ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 18, 2024
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Pain can present itself in many forms for people battling multiple sclerosis, and one type can interfere with exercising, new research shows.
One class of pain experienced by MS patients is what the authors of the new study call nociceptive, caused by specific damage to tissues. Another form is neuropathic pain, caused by the loss of the protective myelin sheath around nerves that is a ha...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 11, 2024
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Women are four to five times more likely than men to develop early-onset rheumatoid arthritis, and a few hormonal factors could be why, new research suggests.
Entering menopause early (before age 45), taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and having four or more kids are all related to heightened odds for developing rheumatoid arthritis, the study found.
Rheumatoid arthritis is ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 10, 2024
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