Pain

You may remember the story of Harvard Medical School grad and CIO of CareGroup John Halamka who was an huge advocate of using implantable radio-frequency identification chips to give patients the option of being a walking EMR. Halamka actually had one of these chips implanted in his arm in late 2004, and the PR frenzy began.

The Taipei Veterans General Hospital in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation evaluated the impact of rheumatoid arthritis on patients� lives and the aspect of their lives that may change as a result of the diagnosis.

Ultrasound may be a helpful tool for diagnosing and treating rheumatoid arthritis, a new study has found.

Patients with cancer who experience moderate to severe pain may be prescribed opioids and could become addicted to them; thus, it is important for oncology nurses to understand addiction and how to assess and manage pain in this patient population.

Check out photos taken at last week's Health 2.0 Conference held in Boston.

Attendees at the ONS Congress are still energized on the start of day three of the conference. Today’s sessions covered a wide range of topics ranging from long-term care of breast cancer survivors to treatment of metastatic disease.

Sleep trouble can lead to an increase in pain symptoms among cancer patients, new research has found.

This debate featured Don Kemper, CEO of Healthwise, and Matthew Holt, co-founder of Health 2.0, LLC, discussing information therapy and Health 2.0, and why they thought one was better than the other.

It's the patient's job to manage his or her care, while the doctor's job is to provide the necessary tools and treatment.

Personal health records, designed to help patients keep all of their medical records in one place and make it easier for doctors to access patient files, may actually lead to inaccurate information and, as a result, improper treatment, some doctors fear.

The journal Chest will be publishing a series of five papers that discuss the need for a comprehensive approach to assessing and managing pain in the ICU.

Advocates and patients have fought for years to raise awareness of fibromyalgia in the medical community and gain recognition for it as a legitimate illness.

A "collaborative care intervention" that includes education, symptom monitoring, and feedback for the primary care physician can lead to a reduction in pain-related disability and intensity when compared with traditional care practices.

The accusation that Scott Reuben, MD, fabricated results in more than 20 papers published in peer-reviewed journals has been widely reported in the last three weeks.

A new treatment that uses oxygen and ozone to provide pain relief from herniated disks will become standard practice in the US in less than 10 years.

A study shows that 40% of adolescents experience low back pain at least once a month.

Evidence from a meta-analysis has researchers recommending that physicians "should not immediately order routine scans for low-back pain unless they observe features of a serious underlying condition."

The Changing Dynamics of Cancer Care and Support in the Cell Phone Age

The Changing Dynamics of Cancer Care and Support in the Cell Phone Age

A new study published has found that Internet surfing can significantly relieve chronic pain in seniors.

Reforming healthcare often took center stage during the presidential campaign. Having won the election, President Obama continues to tout healthcare reform as one of the top issues he wants addressed his first year in office.

A panel of experts from the APS and AAPM has issued a new set of clinical guidelines aimed at aiding clinicians with prescribing opioids for patients with chronic non-cancer related pain.

Researchers have determined that the ancient practice of Zen meditation may have pain reducing qualities.

Electronic tools for comprehensively tracking pain are available, but will physicians and patients use them?

Researchers have found new evidence that antidepressants can reduce the severity of symptoms associated with fibromyalgia syndrome.

A new study examined the major complications of epidurals and spinal anesthetics and found that previous studies overestimated the risks of these procedures.

Antioxidant supplements are an effective treatment for relieving pain and reducing levels of oxidative stress in patients with chronic pancreatitis.

Government funding for pain research has dropped in the past five years, declining more than 9% a year since 2003.

New evidence-based guidelines have been issued by the American Academy of Neurology to test for distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP).

In examining the brains of people with a chronic pain condition known as complex region pain syndrome (CRPS), scientists found that patients’ brains "looked like an inept cable guy had changed the hookups, rewiring the areas related to emotion, pain perception and the temperature of their skin."