Pain
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Can thermal biofeedback reduce pain and anxiety?
Device reduced anxiety scores by 22% in small study.
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FDA warns of hidden ingredients in arthritis, pain products
“I don’t know if this was intentional, but it seems suspicious that a product marketed to reduce joint pain and inflammation contains prescription...
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Antidepressants ‘don’t blunt’ semaglutide and weight loss
“Semaglutide 2.4 mg provides an effective treatment option for weight management, regardless of antidepressant use at baseline.”
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Poor sleep and chronic pain prove pesky bedfellows
Two methods used by torturers – pain infliction and sleep deprivation – harm people in ways that also are experienced by many patients with pain...
Case Reports
Naltrexone: a Novel Approach to Pruritus in Polycythemia Vera
P ruritus is a characteristic and often debilitating clinical manifestation reported by...
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How much pain is in the mind? This doctor thinks the answer is, most
My feeling is that these psychosocial interventions are easy to try, relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, and, in my experience, often can lead to...
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Diagnosing chronic back pain: When to suspect axial spondyloarthritis
Worldwide, the average time to diagnosis was found to be up to 6 years, but patient advocacy groups say the delay can be up to 10 years or more....
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Commentary
Will this trial help solve chronic back pain?
Physicians are trained that if there’s pain, there’s something wrong and we have to do surgery or there’s been some trauma. Most chronic pain is...
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‘Landmark’ trial shows opioids for back, neck pain no better than placebo
Opioids don’t relieve low back or neck pain in the short term and lead to worse outcomes in the long term.