News tagged with chronic pain
How fruit flies can teach us about curing chronic pain and halting mosquito-borne diseases
Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Gifts from the Gila monster
Who would have thought that Gila monster saliva would be the inspiration for a blockbuster new drug for Type 2 diabetes? Or that medicines for chronic pain, heart attacks, high blood pressure and stroke would emerge from ...
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Risk of death from opioid overdose related to higher prescription dose
In an analysis of opioid prescription patterns and deaths, receiving higher prescribed doses is associated with an increased risk of opioid overdose death, but receiving both as-needed and regularly scheduled doses is not ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Vibration helps reduces pain in chronic sufferers, researchers find
Rubbing or massaging is often an instinctive response to pain. Now researchers have found that another kind of touch, vibration, can also help reduce certain types of pain by more than 40 percent. The researchers are encouraged ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Traffic accidents linked to increased risk of chronic widespread pain
Individuals with poorer health or psychological issues may be prone to developing chronic widespread pain following a traumatic event. This new research, published today in Arthritis Care & Research, a peer-reviewed journa ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Painkiller prescribing varies dramatically among family physicians: study
Some physicians are prescribing opioids such as OxyContin 55 times as often as others, according to a new study led by St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The study found most ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Pain research may pave the way to understanding and controlling chronic pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a "cross-talk" between two major biological pathways that involve pain -- research that may pave the way to new approaches to understanding ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Venom of marine snails provide new drugs
Baldomero Olivera studies chemical compounds found in the venoms of marine cone snails, a potential source of powerful, yet safe and effective drugs. He will discuss the development of Prialt - an FDA-approved drug for intractable, ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Positive outlook can ease chronic pain, widowhood
(PhysOrg.com) -- A person's outlook on life can minimize -- or aggravate -- a person's chronic pain, reports a new Cornell study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Pain common among cancer survivors
Surviving cancer may also mean surviving pain, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health System showing 20 percent of cancer survivors at least two years post diagnosis have current cancer-related chronic ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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How does anesthesia disturb self-perception?
An Inserm research team in Toulouse, led by Dr Stein Silva, working with the "Modelling tissue and nociceptive stress" Host Team (MATN IFR 150), were interested in studying the illusions described by many patients under regional ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Switch off enzyme to control chronic pain, say researchers
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed a new drug targeted at parts of the brain and spinal cord associated with pain perception, which may more effectively control chronic pain caused by nerve injuries.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Teens with pelvic inflammatory disease rarely seen in outpatient setting due to costs
Hospitalizing teen girls with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) costs six times as much as treating them in the emergency room, and up to 12 times more than treating them in an outpatient clinic, according to a small study ...
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Genetic switch discovered that turns on pain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Aberdeen scientists have discovered a 'switch' that turns on a gene that lets us feel pain, in a finding that could be a step towards the development of new painkilling drugs.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 21, 2010 |
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It's a pain to take care of pain
While many studies have looked at the treatment of chronic pain from the patient's perspective, there has been little research on those who provide care for chronic pain.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Chronic pain
Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than the temporal course of natural healing, associated with a particular type of injury or disease process.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." Pain is subjective in nature and is defined by the person experiencing it, and the medical community's understanding of chronic pain now includes the impact that the mind has in processing and interpreting pain signals.
For more information about Chronic pain, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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