Oct 12, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For U.S. adults with problem substance use who use nonmedical opioids, the odds of opioid use are increased on days when cannabis is used, according to a study...

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation (SI) is 17.4 percent among physicians, while lifetime prevalence of suicide attempt (SA) is 1.8 percent, accordin...

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Four distinct physical activity profiles are detectable using activity monitoring among adults with arthritis, according to a study published online Oct. 6 i...

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with prior cannabis use may need higher doses of intraoperative inhaled anesthetic and postoperative opioids, according to a study presented at ANES...

Oct 09, 2020

The 124th American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Annual Meeting and OTO Experience The annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is b...

Oct 08, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with acute back pain with sciatica, those receiving early physical therapy (EPT) have improvements in the Oswestry Disability Index (OSW) score...

Oct 07, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- From 2006 to 2017, the frequency of preoperative stress testing declined annually among patients undergoing elective total hip or total knee arthroplasty, acc...

Oct 07, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 6, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Hydroxychloroquine administered for eight weeks as preexposure prophylaxis has no clinical benefit in hospital-based health care workers (HCWs) exposed to pat...

Oct 06, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Opioids prescribed by dentists may pose a threat for interactions with medications for depression or anxiety in older adults, which may increase the risk for ...

Oct 06, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription pain medication (PPM) abuse decreased significantly from 2007 to 2018, according to a study presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY, the annual meeting of the...

Oct 01, 2020

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pain Management for September 2020. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as we...

Sep 30, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Non-COVID-19 hospital admissions decreased considerably with the onset of COVID-19, with declines generally similar across patient demographic subgroups f...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For women with chronic pelvic pain, gabapentin treatment does not result in significantly lower pain scores and is associated with more side effects than pl...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Early stages of the U.K. COVID-19 lockdown had negative consequences for people with musculoskeletal conditions, according to a letter to the editor publish...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Actual health care costs increase up to 20-fold in the six months after a gunshot injury versus the six months before, according to a study published online...

Sep 30, 2020

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- New drug applications (NDAs) for prescription opioids for pain have been based on pivotal trials of short or intermediate duration, often in narrowly define...

Sep 25, 2020

THURSDAY, Sept. 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients with rheumatic diseases face significant challenges in their daily lives, including affordability issues, lifestyle and activity limitations,...

Sep 19, 2020

FRIDAY, Sept. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Jaw bone density and volume are similar between women who had botulinum toxin (BTX) injections to treat temporomandibular muscle and joint disorders (TMJDs) ...

Sep 07, 2020

For a paper published in Pain Medicine, my colleagues and I developed a mind-body intervention, based on principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), for young women with moderate-to-severe prima...

Sep 01, 2020

Revision is the first in more than 40 years For the first time since 1979, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised its definition of pain, which consists of a short statem...