Primary care physicians dealing with chronic pain
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital finds benefits in careful monitoring of chronic pain patients and need for pain management within primary care.
New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital finds benefits in careful monitoring of chronic pain patients and need for pain management within primary care.
Nine weekly sessions of individually tailored acupuncture lessen perceived pain intensity, and improve functional capacity and quality of life, in people with the chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia, finds… read more.
Women are 1.38 times more likely than men to report neck pain due to cervical degenerative disc disease, according to a study of adult patients treated at Loyola… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: A very low-calorie diet appears to enable adults to reverse type 2 diabetes, and, notably, remain diabetes-free if weight-loss is maintained. Researchers reported these findings… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that mindfulness meditation can significantly reduce pain but that it does not employ the endogenous opioid system to do so. The findings appeared… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that about 10 per cent of patients in intensive care units worldwide have Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), that the mortality rate from… read more.
by Maria Dalby: Organ donation from children aged less than 2 years is extremely rare in the UK but could offer significant scope for expanding the donor pool…. read more.
by Maria Dalby: Organ donation from children aged less than 2 years is extremely rare in the UK but could offer significant scope for expanding the donor pool…. read more.
Controversies in UK organ transplantation: have we gone too far in terms of organ quantity at the expense of organ quality? John Forsythe, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Chris… read more.