Posts Tagged ‘pain management’
Survivors can’t clear away cancer fog
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Better follow-up programs are needed for cancer survivors, who often suffer mild to severe pain, fatigue, and memory loss as long as five years after treatment has ended. Continue…
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:58 - 1 Comment
Health & Medicine - Nov 30, 2010 17:28 - 0 Comments
More teens taking high-risk meds
U. ROCHESTER (US) — The rate at which doctors prescribe controlled medications to teens has nearly doubled in the past 14 years—despite the fact that drug misuse is highest among young adults. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 16, 2010 16:01 - 0 Comments
Pain relief (sans trip) via body’s ‘marijuana’?
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US)—A newly discovered molecular mechanism helps control the amount and effectiveness of a substance that mimics an active ingredient in marijuana, but that is produced by the body’s own nerve cells. (more…)
Best of 2010, Health & Medicine - Aug 4, 2010 9:59 - 4 Comments
Enzyme puts kibosh on chronic pain
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—Researchers have identified an enzyme that blocks chronic pain by robbing a major pain pathway of a key molecule. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 1, 2010 11:26 - 9 Comments
Drug triples acupuncture’s painkilling effect
U. ROCHESTER (US)—Scientists have taken another important step toward understanding just how sticking needles into the body can ease pain. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 25, 2010 11:51 - 1 Comment
Painkillers 2.0: Relief without side effects
U. LEEDS (UK)—An international group of scientists has discovered how two proteins play a key role in inflammation and in how we experience pain, paving the way for a new generation of painkillers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 7, 2009 11:08 - 3 Comments
Getting the bugs out of giving meds
ILLINOIS (US)—Software design principles and debugging methods are helping researchers identify a way to reduce the number of injuries and deaths related to errors in how drugs are administered to hospital patients. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 11, 2009 12:40 - 2 Comments
Treatment too painful for some cancer patients
U. PENN (US)—Many women being treated for breast cancer stop taking a medication proven effective—even at the risk of the cancer returning—because the pain associated with it is too much to bear, researchers say. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 15, 2009 18:04 - 7 Comments
Imagination helps kids cope with pain
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US)—Children with functional abdominal pain who combined the use of guided imagery with standard medical treatment were almost three times as likely to improve their pain problem, compared to children who received standard treatment alone. (more…)
