http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-analgesics-heavily-women-men.html Medications Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:01 EST news288344801 A new study conducted by Boston researchers reports that the link between asthma and early childhood use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen may be driven by underlying respiratory infections that prompt the use of these analgesics, rather than the drugs themselves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-early-childhood-respiratory-infections-link.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:08 EST news288274302 Monitoring pain and providing analgesics to patients in intensive care units (ICUs) during non-surgical procedures, such as turning and washing, can not only reduce the amount of pain but also reduce the number of serious adverse events including cardiac arrest, finds new research in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-pain-movement-intensive.html Other Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:00:01 EST news285436208 (HealthDay)—Prescribers of extended-release/long-acting (ER/LA) opioid analgesics are encouraged to participate in continuing medical education (CME) provided by manufacturers of these analgesics, according to an open letter published March 1 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fda-opioid-pursue.html Medications Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:00:01 EST news282308542 (HealthDay)—Opioid analgesics are involved in the majority of pharmaceutical-related overdose deaths, frequently involving drugs prescribed for mental health conditions, according to a research letter published in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-opioids-involved-medical-overdose-deaths.html Medications Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:01 EST news280674055 The rate of drug overdose from prescription opioids increased seven-fold in New York City over a 16-year period and was concentrated especially among white residents of the city, according to latest research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study is one of the earliest and most comprehensive analyses of how the opioid epidemic has affected an urban area. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-prescription-overdose-epidemic-nyc.html Medications Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:38:22 EST news279099113 Drivers who have taken even a small dose of opioid painkillers have an increased risk of being injured in a car accident, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-small-doses-opioids-road.html Medications Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:30:12 EST news277493342 Although this therapy is not curative, it nevertheless reduced the autistic disorders' severity in three-quarters of the children. The researchers have filed a request for authorisation to perform a multi-centre European clinical trial in order to determine more precisely the population concerned by this therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-clinical-trial-severity-autistic-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:01:23 EST news274539599 A new study by the University of Colorado Denver reveals that today's adolescents are abusing prescription pain medications like vicodin, valium and oxycontin at a rate 40 percent higher than previous generations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-young-people-epidemic-prescription-drug.html Medications Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:30:07 EST news269602194 (HealthDay)—Using subcutaneously administered ketamine in a dose-escalating regimen as an adjunct to opioids and standard co-analgesics does not have any clinical benefit in relieving cancer pain, but it is associated with increased toxicity, according to research published online Sept. 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-adding-ketamine-opioids-doesnt-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:20:01 EST news266600315 A centralized prescription network providing real-time information to pharmacists in British Columbia, Canada, resulted in dramatic reductions in inappropriate prescriptions for opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines, widely used and potentially addictive drugs. The findings are reported in a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pharmanet-inappropriate-prescriptions-potentially-addictive.html Medications Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:00:10 EST news265963481 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 improving the efficacy of the widely used painkiller while decreasing its abuse potential. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-morphine-side-effects.html Medical research Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:12 EST news252585704 Prescribing opioids for pain to older patients within seven days of short-stay surgery appears to be associated with long-term analgesic use compared to those patients who did not receive prescriptions for analgesics after surgery, according to a study published in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-opioids-pain-short-stay-surgery-long-term.html Medications Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:08 EST news250779581 Use of acetaminophen and nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was associated with a significantly increased risk for developing renal cell carcinoma, according to data presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct. 22-25, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-analgesics-renal-cell-carcinoma.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:56:54 EST news238697779