Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is relieved by cell transplantation in lab study (Update)
(Medical Xpress) -- Chronic pain, by definition, is difficult to manage, but a new study by UCSF scientists shows how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent ...
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May 23, 2012 |
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Higher pain tolerance in athletes may hold clues for pain management
Stories of athletes bravely "playing through the pain" are relatively common and support the widespread belief that they experience pain differently than non-athletes. Yet, the scientific data on pain perception in athletes ...
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May 17, 2012 |
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Targeted gene therapy offers relief from pain and inflammation
Chronic pain affects an estimated 116 million Americans and costs $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity.
Inflammatory disorders
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Debate flares over assisted suicide
Doreen Dunn had lived in pain for a decade by the time she killed herself in May 2007.
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A new drug to manage resistant chronic pain
Neuropathic pain, caused by nerve or tissue damage, is the culprit behind many cases of chronic pain. It can be the result of an accident or caused by a variety of medical conditions and diseases such as tumors, lupus, and ...
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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New insight into pain mechanisms
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research have made a discovery which could help the development of analgesic drugs able to treat nerve damage-related pain.
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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Patients with acute low back pain have poor prognosis
(HealthDay) -- Few patients with acute low back pain (LBP), with or without sciatica, declare sick leave; however, approximately half have one or more recurrences and a considerable proportion experience chronic ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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Pain relief with PAP injections may last 100 times longer than a traditional acupuncture treatment
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a new way to deliver long-lasting pain relief through an ancient medical practice.
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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A new diagnosis for Frida Kahlo's infertility
Frida Kahlo's many haunting self-portraits have been studied by experts for decades, have attracted worldwide attention and have sold for millions of dollars at auction. Yet, despite the fact that Kahlo's work focuses largely ...
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Migraine patients find pain relief in electrical brain stimulation
Chronic migraine sufferers saw significant pain relief after four weeks of electrical brain stimulation in the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movement, the motor cortex, according to a new study.
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Apr 20, 2012 |
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Chest pain: When conventional treatments don't work
Tens of thousands of Canadians seek emergency services and are referred for angiograms each year to investigate sources of chest pain. For approximately half a million Canadians, chronic chest pain – ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Opium use linked to almost double the risk of death from any cause
Long term opium use, even in relatively low doses, is associated with almost double the risk of death from many causes, particularly circulatory diseases, respiratory conditions and cancer, concludes a study published in ...
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Dentists play key role in detecting oral cancer
(HealthDay) -- Not only do regular dental exams help keep your teeth and gums healthy, they can help detect oral cancer, the Academy of General Dentistry says.
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Apr 07, 2012 |
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Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction
(AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' ...
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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New research finds cause of morphine side effects
A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for ...
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Chronic pain is pain that has lasted for a long time. In medicine, the distinction between acute and chronic pain has traditionally been determined by an arbitrary interval of time since onset; the two most commonly used markers being 3 months and 6 months since onset, though some theorists and researchers have placed the transition from acute to chronic pain at 12 months. Others apply acute to pain that lasts less than 30 days, chronic to pain of more than six months duration, and subacute to pain that lasts from one to six months. A popular alternative definition of chronic pain, involving no arbitrarily fixed durations is "pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing."
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