Pain

Antioxidant supplements are an effective treatment for relieving pain and reducing levels of oxidative stress in patients with chronic pancreatitis.

Government funding for pain research has dropped in the past five years, declining more than 9% a year since 2003.

New evidence-based guidelines have been issued by the American Academy of Neurology to test for distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP).

In examining the brains of people with a chronic pain condition known as complex region pain syndrome (CRPS), scientists found that patients’ brains "looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin."

While obesity, hypertension, and diabetes have always shared connections, every now and then, scientists manage to make some of the unlikeliest connections. As it turns out, Geisinger Health System researchers found that "antimalarial medication may prevent the onset of diabetes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis."

Study results published in the most recent issue of General Hospital Psychiatry indicate that "patients with chronic pain are more prone than others are to consider suicide. The increased risk remained even when study authors took the possible influence of mental illness into account."

Molecular imaging reveals fibromyalgia symptoms related to functional brain abnormalities.

Although hospital patients are generally satisfied with the care that they receive as in-patients, there is a need for improvement in other areas, like pain management and discharge instructions, according to a new study conducted by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...

Mary Gallagher, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Temple University School of Medicine, discusses pain management.

Pain can be intense and difficult to tolerate in the short-term, such as labor pains and kidney stone impaction, or chronic and long-term, such as low back pain.

The Clinical Simulation Center at MU is using advanced technology to provide a realistic learning environment for anesthesiology residents, via a medical mannequin.

Enrollment at the nation's medical schools has remained steady over the years, but some health policy experts are worried that a growing and aging population will eventually lead to a physician shortage.

The AAPS said that many physicians have decided not to use EHRs because they fear the data will be used to control what they do and how they do it.

Through childhood and adolescence, young physicians-to-be learned the workings of the incentive system by cleaning their rooms and taking out the trash in exchange for a periodic monetary allowance. In college and medical school, the lure of professional fulfillment (ie, community respect and a high-end paycheck) became the incentive that carried residents through long hours and back-to-back shifts.