Pain Management News

• Migraine in Children and Teens: Managing the Pain Experts discuss triggers for migraines in teens and clinical guidelines to stop them.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2022
• Buprenorphine Linked With Lower Risk of Neonatal Harms Than Methadone Buprenorphine was associated with lower risk of neonatal side effects than methadone.
  MDedge News, November 30, 2022
• RSNA 2022 NSAIDs for Knee Osteoarthritis May Worsen Pain Over Time Researchers find no long-term benefit and worse inflammation and cartilage quality over 4 years.
  Medscape Medical News, November 28, 2022
• Should Older Seniors Risk Major Surgery? New Research Offers Guidance An important new study offers much-needed data to inform older Americans of the risks and benefits they must weigh when facing major surgery.
  Kaiser Health News, November 28, 2022
• Vitamin D Fails to Stave Off Statin-Related Muscle Symptoms A substudy of the VITAL trial provides the first randomized data examining the effect of the popular supplement on muscle symptoms in statin users.
  Medscape Medical News, November 28, 2022
• Working in a Prison Can Be a 'Fantastic Job' for a Doctor The chair of the French association of healthcare professionals in the prison service describes her experiences working in a detention center.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• Pioneering Addiction Psychiatrist Mitchell Rosenthal Dead at 87 Mitchell Rosenthal, MD, the founder and long-time president and CEO of Phoenix House, a nonprofit substance use disorder treatment organization, died on November 17 at age 87.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2022
• A Post–Super Bowl Airplane Emergency When an airline passenger develops unexplainable life-threatening symptoms midflight, two physicians treat her while the clock ticks.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• More Evidence Insomnia Contributes to Cognitive Decline Frequent difficulty falling asleep in midlife was equivalent to the effect of 2 to 3 years of aging across cognitive domains 14 years later in a long-running study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Recommending Exercise for Migraine: Just Do It Strength training is the most effective form of exercise for reducing migraine, with high-intensity aerobics coming in second, but both beat top-line migraine meds topiramate and amitriptyline, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2022
• Are Pain Meds Bad for Your Gut? Blocking pain with medicine may compromise a process that protects the gut from damage, Harvard researchers say.
  WebMD Health News, November 21, 2022
• ANAC 2022 HIV: Treating 'Symptom Clusters' Could Help Improve QOL One symptom in particular distinguished people younger and older than 45 years living with HIV in a cross-sectional study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Yrs in Prison for Theranos Fraud 'I am devastated by my failings,' Holmes, 38, told Judge Edward Davila before sentencing. 'I have felt deep pain for what people went through because I failed them.'
  WebMD Health News, November 21, 2022
• Pennsylvania Latest State to Decriminalize Fentanyl Test Strips Pennsylvania joins a growing list of state legislatures that have legalized fentanyl test strips as a way of reducing overdose deaths.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• NP Fined $20K for Advertising Herself as 'Doctor Sarah' Although the California nurse practitioner held a doctor of nursing practice degree, she violated the state’s patient protection law restricting who may call themselves "doctor."
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• Bloating Common but Often Ignored Nearly 1 in 7 US adults experience bloating, yet few seek help for it, prompting calls for clinicians to proactively ask about the problem.
  Medscape Medical News, November 21, 2022
• MD Drug Abuse; Physician Personas; Gender in Trans Treatment The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, November 21, 2022
• As STDs Proliferate, Companies Rush to Market At-Home Test Kits The fame of at-home COVID tests has amplified calls from the public health sector and diagnostic companies to make home testing routine for sexually transmitted diseases. But FDA guidelines are lagging.
  Kaiser Health News, November 18, 2022
• Fentanyl Vaccine a Potential 'Game Changer' for Opioid Crisis Researchers have developed a vaccine that blocks the ability of fentanyl to enter the brain, eliminating the synthetic opioid's euphoric effects.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• Is Substance Abuse Among Physicians on the Rise Since COVID? What's COVID got to do with substance use among physicians? Think stress, burnout, overwork, and higher rates of depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022