Pain
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Chronic Migraine Linked to More Stressful Life Events
Major Finding: Relative to their counterparts with episodic migraine, patients with chronic migraine were more likely to report a greater number...
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Neurostimulation May Work When Migraine Drugs Fail
Major Finding: About 70% of patients in the neurostimulation group reported excellent or fair pain relief at 12 weeks, compared with only 20% of...
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Methadone Deaths Outpace Mortality for Other Opioids
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Studies Examine Scenarios of Changing Triptan Regimens
Major Finding: Headache-related disability among patients taking a triptan worsened by 31% in patients who switched to an NSAID and was worst...
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Mass. Insurer Clamps Down on Opioid Prescriptions
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New Device Cuts Fibromyalgia Pain in Pilot Study
Major Finding: Patients with chronic fibromyalgia pain averaged a 45% pain-score cut following treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation....
Commentary
Managing Two Edges of the Opioid Sword
Conference Coverage
Topiramate, Butterbur Added as Top Migraine Prevention Drugs
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Single Question Flags Depression in Chronic Pain
Major Finding: Asking patients who have activity-limiting pain how much they’ve felt downhearted or depressed in the past 4 weeks identified...
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Substance Abusers in Pain Tapered Off Opioids
Major Finding: Patients at high-risk for substance abuse had worse function compared with low-risk patients at the start of a 3-week...