Pain
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MDedge Daily News: Physician burnout needs more than yoga
And triple-agent therapy cuts COPD exacerbations.
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: Ubrogepant reduced pain, related symptoms of a migraine attack
Significantly more patients treated with the CGRP blocker saw pain relief within 2 hours of taking the oral medication, compared with placebo.
Conference Coverage
Erenumab found beneficial to migraine patients with unsuccessful preventive treatment history
A phase 3b trial shows the investigational monoclonal antibody was effective out to 3 months so far.
Daily News Podcast
MDedge Daily News: Can a nasal spray reverse suicidality?
And pain relievers and inflammatory bowel disease? It’s complicated.
Daily News Podcast
MDedge Daily News: Shingles boosts stroke risk
And marijuana use may spur change in safety-sensitive industries.
Feature
Medical marijuana’s ‘Catch-22’: Federal limits on research hinder patients’ relief
“Even though medical marijuana is legal, none of my doctors were willing to talk to me about it. . .They just kept telling me to take opioids.”
From the Journals
Life and health are not even across the U.S.
Can data from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 help close mortality gaps and prevent deaths from opioid abuse, smoking, and obesity?
From the Journals
Epilepsy upped risk of unnatural death
People with epilepsy were about three times more likely to die from any unnatural cause and five times more likely to die from unintentional...
From the Journals
Sensitivity of vibration-based neuropathy detectors varies widely
Percentages of patients with diabetes who fail to detect vibration from three tools ranges from 12% to 29%, suggesting to researchers that single-...
Daily News Podcast
MDedge Daily News: Does more marijuana mean fewer opioids?
And acutely ill patients may not get enough venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.
Feature
Is kratom the answer to the opioid crisis?
Addiction experts say evidence remains sparse about the safety of the botanical product from Southeast Asia.