Aug 17, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of pediatric opioid prescriptions are considered high-risk by one or more metric, and high-volume prescribers write more than half of the prescrip...

Aug 17, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For men with moderate-to-severe chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), 20 sessions of acupuncture results in greater improvement of sympt...

Aug 17, 2021

“Tinnitus is a condition that affects approximately 10% of the adult population in the United States and can diminish one’s quality of life,” explains Hamid R. Djalilian, MD. “To date, there a...

Aug 13, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Some newer antiseizure medications (ASMs) do not appear to increase suicidality in epilepsy, according to a review published online Aug. 2 in JAMA Neurology...

Aug 13, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees who deal with patients, HHS Secretary Xavier Bece...

Aug 12, 2021

“For most patients, pain control remains unsatisfactory,” explains Feng Pan, PhD, MMed, MBBS. “The few pharmacologic analgesic options available have limited efficacy and carry a substantial ris...

Aug 11, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An individual email nudge can increase COVID-19 vaccination registration among health care workers, according to a research letter published online July 28...

Aug 10, 2021

MONDAY, Aug. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Neck pain does not necessarily indicate cervical musculoskeletal dysfunction when present with migraine, according to a study recently published online in Head...

Aug 10, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children whose parents or caregivers regularly smoke or vape marijuana may experience viral respiratory infections, according to a study published online Jul...

Aug 10, 2021

TUESDAY, Aug. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with chronic migraine (CM) and overlapping pain have worse pain-related physical function and psychosocial functioning than those with localized CM,...

Aug 08, 2021

“Migraine, which affects more than 1 billion people worldwide, is one of the leading causes of disability in people younger than 50,” says Keisuke Suzuki, MD, PhD. “In addition to moderate-to-se...

Aug 08, 2021

FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Loneliness is a powerful predictor of use of medications used to treat physical and psychological symptoms among older, community-dwelling adults, according to...

Aug 08, 2021

FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All 2.2 million health care workers and long-term care workers in California will now have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30, the California ...

Aug 05, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing surgery for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis, decompression alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion durin...

Aug 05, 2021

THURSDAY, Aug. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In 2019, 22.1 percent of U.S. adults with chronic pain reported using a prescription opioid in the previous three months, according to a study published onli...

Aug 05, 2021

Men with Peyronie’s disease (PD) typically present with complaints of penile deformity, but some patients also report suffering from pain and erectile dysfunction (ED). “There is a common misconc...

Aug 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Within individual health systems, Black and White patients receive markedly different opioid doses, according to a study published in the July 22 issue of t...

Aug 04, 2021

Gradual dose reductions, careful monitoring encouraged for long-term users Long-term, high-dose opioid therapy was linked to a statistically significant number of overdose and mental health crisis ev...

Jul 30, 2021

FRIDAY, July 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Many of the drugs in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accelerated approval pathway have not been confirmed as clinically effective, despite the requireme...

Jul 30, 2021

FRIDAY, July 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The mean amount of medical debt is greater among individuals who live in the South and in ZIP codes in the lowest income deciles, according to a study publish...