Pain

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Although the use of this medicine to manage pain has been common practice for many years, this form and concentration of morphine was not FDA-approved until now.

Last week, the non-profit, consumer advocacy group known as Public Citizen filed a petition to the FDA on the removal of Savella, a selective serotonin and norepinephrine dual reuptake inhibitor used to treat fibromyalgia, from the market.

There's a concept in healthcare insurance where all risks in a community of interest, a market, are pooled - community rating; and then there's experience rating where the healthy are advantaged in more ways then one and the sick are marginalized, paying disproportionately more into the pool just to have a seat at the table.

Paul McMaster, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières surgeon, describes what he and his team have seen and done since they arrived in Port-au-Prince to bring emergency medical care to earthquake survivors on January 15.

HCPLive blogger Jill Taylor takes a look at some of the stories developing in Haiti and how healthcare providers are responding to the earthquake and subsequent aftershock.

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.

Patients already have enough to worry about without now having to worry about this.

These past months, we have been discussing reality - we are not doing well compared to other systems of care; we cannot afford to continue what we are doing--it's a veritable shell game.

The FDA approved Actemra (tocilizumab) on Friday to treat adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis who have not adequately responded to or cannot tolerate other approved drug classes for rheumatoid arthritis.

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.

The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show recently concluded in Las Vegas; but aside from everything transforming into 3D, there were some other advances and introductions in the world of tech gadgets that are worth mentioning.

"The current health care reform proposal is just a beginning," says Norman Makous, MD. "This legislation addresses health coverage reform. The problem that has not been touched in the current legislation relates to how we provide medical services.