Pain

Although the adage that there is no privacy on the Internet is truer than ever, there are several steps that physicians can take to protect their private lives and information while still remaining active online.

Women that abuse pain medications are more likely to be motivated to do so by emotional issues and psychological distress, while male-motivation to do so is derived from problematic social and behavioral problems, according to a Harvard study published in The Journal of Pain.

Good news doctors! Although the current Congress is content to fritter away your future income with so-called healthcare reform, a plucky Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada has offered a sensible (and tasty) alternative to the usual fee for service: poultry!

Scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio developed a new class of non-addictive painkillers based on the discovery of a new family of fatty acids.

According to the results of a study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital, patients with acne who complete a follow-up visit via a secure website may achieve similar clinical outcomes as patients who receive in-person visits.

Featured on ReachMD's site is a podcast titled, "Appropriate Use, Undermedication and Abuse of Opioid Analgesics."

Researchers unveiled a multi-faceted treatment program for young adults addicted to an opioid drug that includes administering Buprenorphine.

Brandon Roy of the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA played tonight in game 4 of the Blazers playoff series with the Phoenix Suns. To those of you who are not sports fans, you may say, "So what?" The amazing thing is that Roy had arthroscopic surgery for a torn meniscus eight days ago.

Are you a PC? Then you may be excited to know that Microsoft Office 2010 is set to hit the shelves this June, bringing with it a slew of enhanced programs and new apps to keep you better connected, productive, and creative.

Much has happened and incredible progress has been made management of some health conditions, and disappointing progress in others. Today I'm going to discuss peptic ulcer disease.

Whether you're traveling to a medical conference or planning your next vacation, these 10 travel apps for your iPhone are sure to come in handy.

A new study from the Center for Studying Health System Change analyzes the positive and negative affects that EMR implementation can have on physician-patient interaction.

I thought I lost a patient a few weeks ago. No, he didn't die, but after his office visit, I had the distinct impression that he might not come back. My job is to take care of my patients' health. But sometimes I'm just the messenger.

Dr. Edward Pullen examines the ways in which Earth Day and going green can relate to medicine.

Martial arts fall training may help osteoporosis patients as long as appropriate safety measures are taken, according to study results published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes.

A laser treatment developed by Microlight Corp. of America has successfully treated patients with fibromyalgia, according to a new release on the company's website.

Is there middle ground when healthcare errors are made?

Specifically focusing on afflicted back muscles when training, can help those suffering from back pain experience better results, according to study results published in the Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.

For patients with chronic wounds that won't heal, treatment options just got a little sweeter with Derma Sciences' MEDIHONEY Wound and Burn Dressings.

African American and Hispanic patients with arthritis experience a greater burden from their disease, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, published in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Among male chronic pain sufferers, Black men are more likely to experience depression, affective distress, and disability than white men, according to study results published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.

Some health care IT industry heavyweights have gone so far as to suggest that the iPad will be greatly utilized in the healthcare setting and revolutionize the way we do business. While I do think the iPad is incredibly shiny and is great computer replacement for your grandma, I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to suggest that it will ever be fully adopted by healthcare IT shops.

Acute migraine headache sufferers may find relief from taking 1000 mg of Aspirin alone or in addition to 10 mg of metoclopramide, according to conclusions drawn from a Cochrane Systematic Review.

Modern medicine's technological advances now allow more people to live long enough to develop chronic diseases where the mortality is low but the morbidity high. Hyperchondriacs are acutely aware of this, and perceive great threats in their aging and the future. Hyperchondriacs have similar attributes to hypochondrial patients even as they lack the attendant "symptoms" of a physiologic illness.

A graphical tool that tracks down the cause of drug-side-effects is the focus of a study published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (April 2010).

Google has just completed a major overhaul of Google Docs that includes redesigned spreadsheet, document, and drawing editors; group chat functionality; and the ability to collaborate with real-time character-by-character mark-up.

A nice surprise buried somewhere in the healthcare reform bill is that, starting next year, Medicare patients will be able to get annual preventative care exams that are paid for by their health insurance.

Although there was a 181% increase in the use of e-prescribing across the country from 2008 to 2009, the prohibition on the use of this new technology to prescribe controlled substances (schedule II - schedule V) has been a key barrier holding e-prescribing back from widespread adoption.

The highly coveted iPad was released last weekend, and those who were fortunate enough to acquire the new gadget have been quick to discuss what kind of impact it will have on just about any industry. But what kind of impact will the iPad have on healthcare?

An orally-inhaled migraine therapy known as LEVADEX has entered into a pharmacodynamics (PD) trial. The acute effect of LEVADEX, produced by MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc, will be compared to intravenous dihydroergotamine mesylate (IV DHE) and placebo on pulmonary artery pressure.