Parents who suffer from migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than parents who don’t have a history of migraines, according to a new study at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). More than 29 million Americans suffer chronic pain from migraines. Colic, or excessive crying, has long [...]
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Researchers say an online interactive program can help people overcome chronic pain from migraine headaches. A total of 185 participants completed a study which tested a free online program available at painACTION.com, a website designed to help people learn how to manage their pain. Compared to people in a control group, participants who used the [...]
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Max Rosland, a 7-year-old elementary school student from Carter Lake, Iowa, was placed on a heart-lung bypass machine last month because of a severe allergic reaction to a peanut he ate at school. He survived. Ammaria Johnson, a first-grader from Richmond, Virginia went into anaphylactic shock and tragically died January 2 after eating a peanut [...]
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Canadian police, public health officials and native Indian tribes are bracing for potential problems next month when the powerful painkiller OxyContin is withdrawn from the market. Purdue Pharma Canada will stop manufacturing the drug in Canada and will replace it with a new “safer” formulation called OxyNEO on March 1st. OxyContin was developed to treat acute [...]
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Dame Judi Dench has revealed that she has macular degeneration and is battling to save her eyesight. In an interview with the Daily Mirror, the British actress said her vision is so poor she can barely see faces in front of her. But she vowed to continue acting and hopes recent treatment can halt the [...]
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Profits, not patient care, may be a driving force behind the soaring number of drug tests given to people with chronic pain, according to a pain sufferer and patient advocate. In an article published in the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, author Mark Collen claims that widespread drug testing may be partially motivated [...]
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Chronic pain sufferers have long bemoaned the fact that people often tell them the pain is “all in your head.” New research indicates that is partially true and it may be possible to ease chronic pain by erasing memories in the brain. A team of researchers at McGill University in Montreal has found the key [...]
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Chronic pain should be recognized as a disease, not a symptom, according to a panel of experts that testified before a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday. It was the first congressional hearing ever held on chronic pain and pain management, a public health issue that’s drawing increasing attention in the medical community. An estimated 116 million [...]
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Managing chronic pain has gotten less painful – or at least easier to keep track of. Born out Damon Lynn’s own painful experience, “My Pain Diary” is an iphone app designed specifically to help people track their pain. It’s one of several apps on the market that help chronic pain sufferers document their symptoms and [...]
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Two national surveys of doctors in the U.S. have uncovered shocking admissions that many physicians lie to their patients, withhold information about their medical mistakes, fail to disclose their financial relationships with medical companies, and routinely order unnecessary medical procedures to avoid being sued. “There’s an expectation that our doctors will be truthful, and most [...]
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