Sep 01, 2020

FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Symptomatic low back pain (LBP) resolves in 82 percent of patients with hip and back pain who undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to a study prese...

Sep 01, 2020

FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors should tell patients and caregivers about the overdose antidote naloxone when they prescribe opioid painkillers such as Percocet and OxyContin and med...

Aug 31, 2020

MONDAY, Aug. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Postoperative follow-up telephone calls (TFU) to patients after Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) do not improve patient satisfaction, according to a research l...

Aug 31, 2020

MONDAY, Aug. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer and the International Society of Oral Oncology (MASCC/ISOO) have issued updated recommendations for...

Aug 26, 2020

Previous studies indicate that chronic pain, including fibromyalgia (FM), negatively impacts quality of life (QoL) for the reportedly affected 3%-6% of the world population. “There is supportive evi...

Aug 22, 2020

FRIDAY, Aug. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing common orthopedic sports procedures, a multimodal, nonopioid pain protocol featuring little or no use of opioids is feasible for manag...

Aug 21, 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...

Aug 21, 2020

A multimodal approach is most often necessary to adequately manage chronic nonspecific neck pain and low back pain (LBP). The treatment plan may include medications with differing sites of action, phy...

Aug 11, 2020

Approval limited to use in ’controlled clinical settings’ WASHINGTON — Oliceridine, an intravenous opioid, received FDA approval for short-term use in hospitals or "controlled clini...

Aug 10, 2020

The rate of infective endocarditis (IE) in people who inject drugs (PWID) has been rapidly increasing in recent years, explains Michael Silverman, MD. Dr. Silverman and colleagues hypothesized that th...

Aug 08, 2020

FRIDAY, Aug. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Life expectancy for 2009 to 2011 was 78.60 years for the total U.S. population, with the highest life expectancy for Hispanic women, according to the Aug. 7 Na...

Aug 05, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians say prior authorization (PA) continues to interfere with patient care and can lead to adverse clinical consequences, according to the results of ...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For surgical and nonsurgical specialists, sex differences in income vary with the proportion of male physicians in a practice, according to a study published ...

Aug 02, 2020

FRIDAY, July 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The emergence of telemedicine has accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. HD Live! sat down with Rujuta Saksena, M.D., an oncologist at Overlook Medical ...

Jul 28, 2020

National guidelines note that nonpharmacologic and non-opioid-containing pharmacologic therapies are preferred for managing chronic pain whenever appropriate. “Since the early 2000s, there has been ...

Jul 26, 2020

FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance report, published in the July 24 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, recommendations...

Jul 26, 2020

FRIDAY, July 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors should tell patients and caregivers about the overdose antidote naloxone when they prescribe opioid painkillers such as Percocet and OxyContin and med...

Jul 24, 2020

THURSDAY, July 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 continues to cause financial peril for U.S. hospitals, according to a report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA). Kaufman Hall c...

Jul 12, 2020

FRIDAY, July 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Symptomatic low back pain (LBP) resolves in 82 percent of patients with hip and back pain who undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA), according to a study prese...

Jul 09, 2020

THURSDAY, July 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- There is wide variation in the safety performance of electronic health record (EHR) systems used in U.S. hospitals, according to a study recently published i...