Pain
Conference Coverage
Addressing anxiety helps youth with functional abdominal pain disorders
MILWAUKEE – Tackling comorbid anxiety reduced pain, disability, and anxiety.
Feature
Report calls for focus on ‘subpopulations’ to fight opioid epidemic
“Methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone ... save lives” but most people with OUD get no treatment, new report says.
Conference Coverage
Opioid overdose risk greater among HIV patients
From the Journals
In California, opioids most often prescribed in low-income, mostly white areas
Opioid-related overdose deaths are highest in low-income white areas.
From the Journals
Cloud of inconsistency hangs over cannabis data
Number of medical cannabis users is up more than 10-fold since 2009, available data show.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Antidepressants for chronic pain
Certain agents may mitigate pain associated with neuropathy, fibromyalgia, headache, and IBS.
From the Journals
Age of migraine onset may affect stroke risk
One unexpected finding was that the onset of migraine with aura before age 50 is not associated with ischemic stroke.
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA labeling templates smooth way for OTC naloxone
The templates aim to ease the submission process for manufacturers.
Daily News Podcast
Courts stop contraceptive mandate
Back pain persists in one in five patients.
Shrink Rap News
Opioid crisis offers poignant lessons for public health
Dr. Dinah Miller says experiments addressing the crisis must be contained while ascertaining what works and what doesn’t.
Daily News Podcast
Think outside lower body for pelvic pain
The editor-in-chief of Blood has a few tips on how you can get your work published.