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May 18th, 2009
Women with chest pain are less likely than male patients to receive recommended, proven therapies while en route to the hospital.
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Apr 15th, 2009
Giving a specific form of their own stem cells to patients with severe chest pain results in less chest pain and improves their ability to exercise.
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Mar 26th, 2009
Vertebral (back) fractures can be very painful. It is estimated that approximately 150,000 patients in the United States are hospitalized each year with compression fractures. There stay in the hospital can average 8 days. The overall resulting costs are estimated to exceed $1.6 billion. So it is important to be able to show that a minimally invasive procedure like the balloon kyphoplasty is helpful in treating these fractures.
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Mar 21st, 2009
A new study from Mayo Clinic suggests that narcotic pain medicine use can be cut in half in chronic pain sufferers by checking for adequate levels of vitamin D. Chronic pain is a difficult problem to treat, and the study hopes to lend insight into chronic pain management.
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Jan 31st, 2009
On Friday, January 30, 2009, government medical advisers recommended a ban on Darvon by a narrow 14-12 vote. Darvocet is a prescription medicine that's been used for pain treatment for more than 50 years.
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Jan 30th, 2009
The pain relieving effects of acupuncture compared with placebo are small and seem to lack clinical relevance, according to a study published on bmj.com today.
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Jan 15th, 2009
The FDA approved milnacipran (Savella) for fibromyalgia pain treatment on January 14, 2009. Milnacipran is a selective norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitor.
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Jan 8th, 2009
A new study from The University of Nottingham highlights the need to improve pain treatment among seniors. Senior citizens who live in pain consider the experience "normal", yet pain can lead to depression and impacts quality of life in our senior years.
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Jan 2nd, 2009
Complementary and alternative medical practices - which include health products and therapies that aren't generally considered part of conventional medicine - are frequently a part of Americans' health care regimens. That's the finding of a new survey released this month by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
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Jan 1st, 2009
Antioxidant supplementation was found to be effective in relieving pain and reducing levels of oxidative stress in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP), reports a new study in Gastroenterology. CP is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas in which patients experience abdominal pain (in early stage) and diabetes and maldigestion (in late stage).
