Pain

What policies should hospitals and other facilities enact to educate staff on patient privacy in the age of Facebook and Twitter?

Drug for diabetic neuropathic pain receives FDA fast track designation.

Designed to give patients and caregivers detailed knowledge on prescription opioid safety, the new website Opioids911-Safety offers a range of information on what opioids are and how they work, as well as tools, tips, frequently asked questions, resources, and more.

Researchers have developed a drug that can stop and reverse diabetic neuropathy in mice.

Gout Living website features a gout attack tracker, information for family, friends and caregivers, and helps patients locate Arthritis Foundation offices.

Dell debuts the Aero, an Android-based smartphone with loads of memory and the ability to run simultaneous apps.

Dr. Gary Gilkeson, a rheumatologist, discusses the risk factors associated with osteoarthritis, the symptoms and pain treatment options.

Anne Rutjes, a researcher at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine University of Bern, describes recent findings on transcutaneous electrostimulation.

For more than 50 years, osteoarthritis research has focused only on cartilage. Professor Nick Fazzalari decided to think laterally and noticed bone differences.

Eveline Nueesch, from Berne in Switzerland, describes a Cochrane review of opioids as a means of relieving this pain.

Dr. Susan Jewell speaks about using exercise for Osteoarthritis and Osteoporosis in this free medical treatment video.

Dr. Joanne Jordan, director, Thurston Arthritis Research Center at UNC, has found that blacks are not protected from osteoarthritis of the hip as once thought.

Dr. Casey Kerrigan, Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UVA Health System, discusses osteoarthritis in the tibiofemoral joint and knee varus torque

This video will explain the causes of osteoarthritis and the different treatment options available to treated it.

Dr. Lubin provides more examples that show why the title of his blog, "Code E876.9: Unspecified Misadventures During Medical Care" is so appropriate.

Louis Kuritzky, MD, clinical assistant professor, University of Florida, discusses new insights into the treatment of gout.

A new gout treatment can normalize levels of uric acid in the blood within hours in patients who have failed to respond to any other treatments.

Roland Staud of the University of Florida, discusses the results of a study that evaluates muscle afferent input in patients with fibromyalgia.

Judy Foreman interviews Dr. Don Goldenberg, chief of rheumatology at Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts.

George Griffing, MD, Professor of Medicine at St. Louis University, discusses new insights and therapies on the horizon for fibryomyalgia.

Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are linked by a viral etiology.

Knowing your patient is always the best way to the right treatment --particularly for military patients, who bring unique clinical challenges.

Giordano highlights issues in pain medicine that leave patient populations vulnerable.