Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The American Society of Pain Educators (ASPE) announces the launch of an educational Webcast series on chronic pain with leading health specialists and Olympic Games gold medalist and chronic pain sufferer, Nikki Stone.
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a new health benefit offered by her employer.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Roche's Actemra appears effective at treating rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that can destroy joints and causes chronic pain for patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
gillianic tendencies (Free subscription) | yesterday
If I ever berate someone for being a downer or asshole from chronic pain, just shoot me, okay? Actually, shoot me now so I don’t have to wait another day for this root canal. This has been one of the longest weeks of my life, and nothing particularly bad happened, except for the feeling of [...]
MindBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Natalie Angier offers an excellent discussion of the biology, psychology and physics of our relationship with mirrors, how they are used in studies of self awareness in humans and animals, and also in treating disorders like phantom limb syndrome, chronic pain and post-stroke paralysis. I show here a nice graphic from the article explaining why few of us understand how our mirrors images really work....
Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
NORCROSS, Ga. - After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain relief/muscle relaxant in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a of the present day health benefit offered by her employer. The service, Health Advocate, is a call-in center that helps customers find the right doctor, haggle over insurance coverage and manage other medical arrangement headaches....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a new health benefit offered by her employer. The service, Health Advocate, is a call-in center that helps customers find the...
Fast weight loss (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
There are many options for alternative cancer treatment. All are designed to reduce or help control cancer and provide for the well being of the patient. Cancer affects the body and can cause anxiety, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, chronic pain, sleep problems, and stress.The following is a guide recommending alternative cancer treatments for helping you cope with your cancer; however these
GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Concentra, with over 300 outpatient clinics in 40 states, seeks stellar Physical Therapists. We treat acute musculoskeletal injuries in working men and women, typically seeing patients on days 1 or 2 of injury, thus we dont see alot of chronic pain patients. We are also expanding our services to the group health market, so we will soon see general outpatient orthopedic patients. Strong manual therapy...
GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Concentra, with over 300 outpatient clinics in 40 states, seeks stellar Physical Therapists. We treat acute musculoskeletal injuries in working men and women, typically seeing patients on days 1 or 2 of injury, thus we dont see alot of chronic pain patients. We are also expanding our services to the group health market, so we will soon see general outpatient orthopedic patients. Strong manual therapy...
GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Concentra, with over 300 outpatient clinics in 40 states, seeks a stellar Hand Therapist to join our team in Austin! We treat acute work related injuries, typically seeing patients on days 1 or 2 of injury, thus we dont see many chronic pain patients. If you enjoy delivering exceptional clinical care in a cohesive team environment, please call! Strong experience in hand therapy is required. CHT certification...
Debra Moorhead . com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I get the best e-mails from y’all. Last week a new reader e-mailed me to ask if I had ever written anything on how to deal with chronic pain. I explained that since I only write about what I know, I have not dealt with that subject here. But then [...]
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
NeuroDiscovery Ltd (ASX: NDL), a specialty neuroscience services provider and drug development company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its Phase I multiple ascending dose clinical trial of NSL-043. This trial is the second of two Phase I trials, designed to test the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of an oral formulation of [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
NeuroDiscovery Ltd (ASX: NDL), a specialty neuroscience services provider and drug development company, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its Phase I multiple ascending dose clinical trial of NSL-043.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Patients with accident- or trauma-related chronic pain often have post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, University of Michigan researchers said. However, what isn't clearly known, however, is how PTSD relates to mood disorders and pain severity in chronic pain patients.
