Migraine

What if our tort system required the losing side to pay for the winner's legal fees and costs?

Microsoft shot itself in the foot when it released Windows Vista in 2007. Windows Vista was widely derided as inferior to Windows XP, and to this day, many users have refused to upgrade or purchase a new computer with the Vista operating system.

According to a recent study, carefully selected patients with no history of addiction and abuse, who are compliant with their medication usage, might experience good amounts of pain relief with a very small risk of addition.

Data show that for every 3.5 to 4.7 patients treated with light sedation compared to deep sedation, one incident of delirium will be prevented.

A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there.

The results of a recent study show that 25% of patients with migraines are also suffering from depression.

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A lot of amputees and the paralyzed will need lifelong care.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières teams in Port-au-Prince are still under great pressure.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières staff work 24 hours a day to treat as many patients injured in the January 12 earthquake as possible, but the needs are huge and there are delays in receiving crucial supplies.

Here is a list of donations given by celebrities to assist in the relief effort of the earthquake that hit Haiti.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.

Isabelle Jeanson, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières emergency communications officer, has been with the MSF teams in Port-au-Prince since January 15. Here she describes the situation as of January 17.

Here are some general facts about last week's earthquake in Haiti and the aid that has been given by other countries around the world.

Healthcare professionals looking to donate time or money to disaster relief efforts in Haiti will find information on how to do so through these ten organizations.

Researchers found that nonsurgical treatment and smoking independently predicted continued long-term opioid use and pain severity did not.

Self-reported amputation-specific pain severity is similar in men and women but there are considerable gender variations in overall pain outcomes, such as emotional health and pain-coping responses.

The treatment of intractable pain remains an unresolved controversy in American medicine. Although, in theory, it is generally accepted that pain must be adequately treated, particularly in cancer patients, the treatment of pain unrelated to malignancy remains a stubborn and highly contentious issue.

Acetaminophen is often recommended instead of aspirin as a day-to-day pain reliever, but taken in too high a dose, it can damage the liver and perhaps cause liver failure.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been working together to treat as many of the people who were injured after the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.

Skeptics like Borges disagree with claims that HIT adoption will improve quality of care and cut costs, and feel that overall the push to adopt complex EHRs will be a bad deal for physicians.

Couldn't make it to Denver, CO for the Medical Group Management Association 2009 Annual Conference in October? Don't worry, our editors have summarized some of the best presentations from the 2009 MGMA Conference.

Now is a great time to buy a smartphone. Powerful devices, better plans, and advanced applications boost productivity and let the busy physician stay more in tune with his or her practice. Here are eight highly recommended smartphones for the enterprising physician.

There's a great scene in the movie The Big Chill where the main characters are having a discussion on the topic of rationalizations. One individual comments that he doesn't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations.

More on Smartphones from the MoBlog.

The FDA public hearings on the use of the Internet and social media to promote FDA-regulated medical products drew hundreds of presenters and thousands of written comments. Although the FDA isn't expected to issue formal rules or guidance until late next year at the earliest, the initial response among stakeholders has been positive.

In the wake of the debacle that was Vista, all eyes have been on Microsoft and its eagerly awaited Windows 7. Does the new operating system correct Vista's fatal flaws (incompatibility, sluggishness, and annoying notifications), while making significant improvements on XP in terms of ease of use and organization? Read on to find out.

2009 may very well be looked back on as the year that social media �nally came into its own in healthcare. Compared to how things were a couple years ago, the current level of penetration, acceptance, and utilization of social media tools of all stripes within healthcare is striking. Here, we present summaries of some of the biggest stories and trends in healthcare social media from 2009.

We've collected links to some of the top podcast resources for primary care physicians.

Migraine headaches affect an estimated 25% to 30% of individuals in the United States. More than two thirds of patients who have migraines are women. Many women experience migraines before or during their menstrual cycle. Migraines can also run in families, and most often occur between 15 and 55 years of age.