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Effective pain relief from a marijuana-like substance may be possible, according to a the results of a recent study published in the Anesthesia & Analgesia journal.

Among the 18 different questions families were asked, two in particular helped the researchers identify which families were food insecure.

Computerized provider order entry systems can miss half of routine medication orders issued in a hospital, and a third of potentially fatal orders, a new report reveals.

Researchers have identified an immune cell that may play a role in low back pain associated with herniated disc.

US healthcare ranks poorly against the systems in other developed countries in terms of cost efficiency and outcomes. How can we realign payment and utilization incentives to reward high-quality, patient-centered care?

In a recent blog I wrote about empathy and how we might try to teach medical students to be empathic physicians. Psychiatrists, other physicians and therapists try to put ourselves into our patient's shoes (or skin) in order to understand how they are feeling in regard to the things which are troubling them.

The weight-loss therapy also results in a significant reduction of cholesterol levels within 6 months of surgery that remain lowered six years after the procedure.

The new Symptom Checker is an online tool that can provide parents with advice about what to do the next time their child develops a fever, cough, or sore throat.

A physician reviewer continues using the iPad as his primary interface during a hospitalist rotation and reports on the effectiveness of the technology.

This recent comment from a patient during an exam led Dr. Pullen to reflect on the many things that physicians do during an office visit that may seem odd to patients.

The timing of the onset of a patient's symptoms can serve as a critical piece of the puzzle when trying to determine a diagnosis.

Findings published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics indicate that women who are physically active at any point in life, particularly as teenagers, had a lower likelihood of cognitive impairment in late life.

Researchers found a significant decrease in average blood sugar levels from a baseline of 8.3% to 7.5% in the group using sensors and insulin pumps, compared to 8.3% to 8.1% in the multiple daily injection group, at one year.

Residents who were informed about the Medicare "no pay for errors" rule were less likely to choose the most appropriate clinical practice choices in response to clinical vignettes, according to findings published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

For the first time, Hospital for Special Surgery will host an international Osteoarthritis Summit in June 2011 that will bring together a comprehensive multidisciplinary group of world renowned scientists, thought-leaders and industry representatives from the US, Canada, and Europe.

A herniated disk is one of the most frequent causes of low back in adults.

As reported by the Hill.com, "more than a hundred pain management specialists are in Washington this week" in an attempt to draw attention to the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

I'd like to introduce Junig's Warm Coat Theory of Psychotropic Prescribing, or what I suggest the medical field refers to as the "JWCT."

Despite the changes the virus undergoes to evade the body's immune system, the original HIV infection is still present months after initial exposure.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed the first international consensus formulation of a standardized nomenclature for cardiac allograft vasculopathy.

Kaiser Permanente researchers have found that very young children vaccinated with a combination measles, mumps, and rubella and chickenpox vaccine are more likely to experience febrile seizures than children vaccinated separately for MMR and chickenpox.

Omega-3 supplements are an effective treatment for patients with major depression who are not suffering from comorbid anxiety.

Early experiments are being done to develop new drugs that have the potential to relieve cancer pain without causing some of the side effects associated with current pain treatments.

Researchers found that repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) or meniscal cartilage injury in the knee does not decrease the chances of developing osteoarthritis.

Cancer is not a single disease, but a collection of many types of the disease.

Found in grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants, resveratrol may help treat age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinopathy of prematurity by stopping angiogensis.

With the passing of the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act in 2005, the climate for establishing state prescription monitoring programs seemed to be moving in a brighter direction, but some issues still remain.

A Doctor and his wife were found guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients at their medical clinic in Wichita, Kansas.

The team from the University of California, San Francisco, found that serotonin greatly increases the release of two pregnancy hormones, prolactin and placental lactogen.

Antioxidants did not diminish the efficacy of chloroquine in eliminating Plasmodia from the blood and prevented subsequent cognitive impairment in mice, according to recent research from the University of Utah.