Pain in Medical News

Arizona Pain Specialists Contend Recent Vertebroplasty Studies are Misleading: Studies Actually Show it is Effective at Reducing Pain

Two studies released August 6, 2009 in the New England Journal of Medicine claim to demonstrate that vertebroplasty, a procedure to treat some painful spine fractures, is not effective. According to several authorities in the field, this is incorrect, as both studies actually demonstrate a signi...

Nanotechnology Transforms Pain Relief

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Following 15 years of research and development of topical pain relief products, Concept Laboratories, Inc. discovered that the use of nanotechnology greatly enhances the effects of topical pain relievers. Teaming their most high performance formulas w...

New Surgical Device Revolutionizes Face Lifts, Abdominoplasty and Breast Reduction Surgery Promising Patients Quicker Recovery Time, Less Pain and Fewer Bruises

The all new PlasmaBlade, adopted by The Robert Zubowski MD Center For Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, promises plastic surgery patients quicker recovery time, less post-surgical pain, and less brusing than commonly used techniques in traditional plastic surgery practice in the New Jersey are...

New Interventional Pain Management Guidelines Released by the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians

NEW YORK, JULY 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) announced today they have released the 2009 updated Interventional Pain Management (IPM) guidelines. Dr. Manchikanti, primary author of the guidelines stated that, "The pu...

Registered Dietitian Reveals Chronic Back Pain Relief through Diet in New Book, Cookbook and Diet Program

A noted registered dietitian is getting to the bottom of the epidemic of chronic back pain with a new diet that holds the key to relief. (Vocus) July 23, 2009 -- A noted registered dietitian is getting to the bottom of the epidemic of chronic back pain with a new diet t...

Cadence Pharmaceuticals Announces Priority Review and Acceptance of NDA Submission for Acetavance(TM) for Treatment of Acute Pain and Fever

SAN DIEGO, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CADX ) announced today that its New Drug Application (NDA) for Acetavance(TM) (intravenous acetaminophen), its investigational product candidate for the treatment of acute pain and fever in adults...

Transdel Pharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment in Phase 3 Clinical Study for Novel Topical Pain Treatment

LA JOLLA, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Transdel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TDLP) a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing non-invasive, topically administered products, today announced they have successfully completed the enrollment of patients in their ...

FDA Mandates Tougher Warnings for Pain Pills

Drugs like Darvon, Darvocet have been linked to fatal overdoses TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Concerns about the possibility of fatal overdoses led U.S. health officials Tuesday to take several steps to limit the risk of using pain medications containing propoxyphene, including D...

First Book Focusing on How "The Secret Pain Women Won't Talk About" Affects Relationships

For an estimated 15-20 million American women, sex hurts. Most suffer in silence because they are too embarrassed or ashamed to speak of it. Symptoms can include burning, stinging, or stabbing pain in the genital area, urinary urgency, irritable bowel, low back pain (and many more), any of which ...

HealthSource of Chicago: New Techniques for Back Pain Relief in Chicago

Dr. Ruzila with HealthSoure of Chicago, a chiropractor doctor, has developed new techniques to relieve back pain. People with herniated discs, sciatica, stenosis, hip and leg pain, now have an oportunity to change their lives! Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 26, 2009 -- Dr. Pa...

Effective pain treatment for cancer patients?

Cancer patients often suffer from severe pain that cannot be effectively treated with conventional medication. Researchers at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of Heidelberg have found the possible reasons for this tumors release two signal substances that make nerve cells especially s...

Promise for Treating Low Back Pain - Radiofrequency a Trusted Technique With a New Application

WILMINGTON, Mass., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Who suffers from low back pain; my brother, my boss's brother, my neighbor, a friend on the golf course and recently the media reports Regis Philbin and Jeff Gordon suffer from low back pain. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090217/NE7...

Beth Israel Medical Center Receives Major American Cancer Society Grant Toward Improving Pain Management in Chinese Cancer Patients

$1.76 Million Grant from the American Cancer Society to Hospital's Nationally Recognized Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care and Asian Services Center NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Beth Israel Medical Center's nationally recognized Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative ...

Leaders from the Field of Pain Therapeutics to Discuss Latest Discoveries and Breakthroughs at Arrowhead's 3rd Annual Pain Therapeutics Summit

Arrowhead's 3rd Annual Pain Therapeutics Summit, scheduled to take place in Summit, NJ on September 24th and September 25th, 2009, will be bringing together leaders in pain therapeutics and management to discuss the latest developments in discovery research, preclinical development, clinical deve...

Lilly Resubmits Cymbalta(R) Supplemental New Drug Application for Chronic Pain to U.S. Food and Drug Administration

INDIANAPOLIS, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As projected, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) has resubmitted its supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Cymbalta(R) (duloxetine HCl) for the management of chronic pain to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Lilly's resubmissio...

HealthForumOnline Offers New Online CE/CEU Course on Pain Screening Instruments for Medical and Mental Health Providers

HealthForumOnline (HFO), announces a new CE/CEU course entitled A Review of Pain Screening Instruments for Medical and Mental Health Providers: Assessment and Coordination of Care of the Pain Patient to their extensive online library of nationally-approved continuing education (CE) courses for me...

Easing the Pain of Father's Day Without Dad, Highmark Caring Place Helps Children Cope With the Death of a Parent

PITTSBURGH, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Since one child in 20 will have a parent die before he or she graduates from high school, many young people will experience a Father's Day without dad on June 21. For children and families in need of additional support to help ease the pain at this time, the High...

Buster Brands Launches Natural Alternatives to Acetaminophen Pain Killers

On the heels of a new report that warns of potential liver damage from the well known pain reliever acetaminophen, sales of natural pain relief products are picking up steam. On Wednesday, the FDA released a report recommending stronger warnings and dose limits for drugs containing acetaminophe...

Music may improve feeding, reduce pain in premature babies: U of A study

As long as there have been babies, adults have crooned lullabies to soothe them. But research suggests music might also help premature infants learn to suckle better and reduce their pain. If confirmed, this would be a simple, low-cost way to help these tiny babies feed on their own faster and ...

Process for Planning Safe Pain Treatment Outlined in Presentation at FDA Meeting

WASHINGTON, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Part of the answer in ensuring safe patient use of opioid medications lies in first identifying the ways the process of prescribing and dispensing medications may fail to protect patients from the risks of those products, and this can best be accomplis...

Music May Temper Pain in Preemies

Analysis finds benefits, but some question results beyond soothing of infants,,,, WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Playing music seems to reduce pain and encourage feeding in premature infants, University of Alberta researchers report. Music is being widely used in neonatal un...

Common migraine pain condition also prevalent in cluster headache

(PHILADELPHIA) A pain condition common in people with migraines also has a high prevalence in patients with cluster headache, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Jefferson Headache Center at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience. Approximately half of a group of patients with clu...

New Non-Surgical Laser Treatment Helps Patients Live Pain Free

Low level laser therapy (LLLT) , also called cold laser therapy, is a new treatment that provides proven pain relief and healing without drugs or surgery. This innovative pain relief therapy is now offered by The Laser Pain Management Center in Western Massachusetts. H...

When Chest Pain Requires Quick Action in ER

Urgency needed in only one-third of cases, study says WEDNESDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Only one-third of the people who come to a hospital with the intense chest pain that doctors call acute coronary syndrome should be assessed for artery-opening procedures within a few hours, a n...

7 out of 10 women too embarrassed to discuss vaginal dryness and pain with their physician

The majority of post-menopausal women are uncomfortable talking about vaginal dryness and pain and are reluctant to seek medical help, according to results from a new international survey presented today at the European Congress on Menopause in London. Results from the survey show that over a thir...

Chronic Pain Sufferers Find Hope in the Darkness

Maureen Pratt Offers Prayerful Approach to Pain in Steinbach, Manitoba Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada (Vocus) May 15, 2009 -- Each day throughout the world, countless people suffer in silence from chronic pain. Even pop singer, famed choreographer, and American Idol judge,...

APS issues new guideline for low-back pain interventions, surgery

PORTLAND, Ore. The American Pain Society (APS) has issued a new clinical practice guideline for low back pain that emphasizes the use of noninvasive treatments over interventional procedures, as well as shared decision making between provider and patient. The findings are published in the current...

Study: Women with hard to diagnose chest pain symptoms at higher risk for cardiovascular events

LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL MAY 11, 2009; 3 pm Central Daylight Time) Many physicians are presented with the following scenario: a woman comes into the office complaining of chest pain, undergoes a stress test to evaluate the chest pain, and the stress test results suggest coronary artery disea...

Experts Recommend Cherries For Pain Relief From Arthritis

Eating Red May Help Arthritis Sufferers Manage Inflammation and Stiffness LANSING, Mich., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Forty-six million American adults currently suffer from arthritis - and as the population ages, the number is expected to increase.(1) May has been deemed National Arthritis Mo...

Consumers are Looking to Boiron Arnicare(R) as a Safer Option as FDA Enforces Stricter Labeling for Many Pain Relievers

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa., May 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Many over-the-counter pain relievers will be required to carry stiffer warnings as the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implements its new labeling rules. The final ruling, made Tuesday, calls for stronger labeling on the dangers of liver...

New guidance on making work less of a pain in the back

New guidance for employers, patients and doctors on helping people with back pain return to work will be announced on Tuesday May 5 at the University of Leicester. It is estimated that it costs society in excess of 12 billion a year with people taking time off work because of back pain. Aroun...

Chronic ankle pain may be more than just a sprain

ROSEMONT, IL Ankle sprains are a common injury after a fall, sudden twist or blow to the ankle joint. Approximately 40 percent of those who suffer an ankle sprain will experience chronic ankle pain, even after being treated for their initial injury. A review article published in the May 2009...

HJF publishes handbook on managing pain of battlefield trauma

Rockville, Md. (April 24, 2009) The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. has released a one-of-a-kind publication intended to educate anesthesiology residents in the art and science of advanced battlefield regional anesthesia techniques and acute pain medicine...

A New, Highly Effective, Non-Narcotic Pain Medication Now Available for Chronic Pain Patients

The Board Certified Pain Physicians of MedsNatiowide have developed an extremely effective alternative to narcotic pain medications through their multi-center meta-analysis study for chronic pain sufferers called Neurocet and Neurofen. Tampa, FL (PRWEB) April 28, 2009 -...

Pennsaid(R) Phase 3 study results to be published in leading international PAIN journal

MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Nuvo Research Inc. (TSX: NRI), a Canadian drug development company focused on the research and development of drug products delivered to and through the skin using its topical and transdermal drug delivery technologies, today announced that study ...

The price of pain and the value of suffering

During these trying financial times, the cost of healthcare and how much we are willing to pay for it is at the top of our economic concerns. The financial value of pain has a wide ranging influence, affecting drug prices and injury compensation. But what about on an individual level is it possib...

AcelRx Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Cancer Breakthrough Pain Program

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of ARX-02, a proprietary sublingual sufentanil NanoTab(TM) product candidate for cancer breakthrough pain control. The primary objective of this multicenter, r...

Got the Blues? Get Z-CoiL Pain Relief Shoes

Spring Into Spring with Fresh, New Colors from Z-CoiL® Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) April 20, 2009 -- The Z-CoiL® Freedom , the best-selling style of our unique line of Pain Relief Footwear® products, ushers in spring with two appealing new colors: Navy/White fo...

Louisiana Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians

Interventional Pain Management Techniques to be Performed Exclusively by Trained Medical Physicians to Ensure Patient Safety NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) announced that the Louisiana Supreme Court has denied a c...

Pelvic pain as prevalent in teens as older males, Queen's researchers discover

Kingston, ON A Queen's University research team has found that a painful pelvic affliction associated with adult men occurs as frequently in adolescent boys. Chronic prostatitis or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a urogenital disease associated with persistent and life-altering pelvic a...