The multicenter Baby HUG trial led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators shows hydroxyurea reduces the most common symptoms of sickle cell anemia in children, raising hopes the drug will ease complications and improve patient quality of life.
CransioSacral therapy safely complements the body's natural healing processes, and is increasingly used as a holistic health measure to address headaches, chronic neck or back pain and fatigue among other conditions.
A cancer drug already used to treat adults and school-age children with sickle cell anemia is safe and significantly reduces pain and other complications of the disease in children as young as 9 months, according to a national study involving a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
A new study published in The Journal of Pain reports that SCD patients clear morphine from their blood stream quickly and, therefore, require high doses to achieve optimal analgesia.
Wealth, population size, race and age associate with the supply of hospice care available in a county, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management this month.
Nurses in the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital are pioneering techniques -- including the use of iPads -- to improve the patient experience by eliminating or minimizing pain.
Actor Jerry Mathers is the host of the American Academy of Neurology Foundation’s latest patient education video and guidebook, Diabetic Nerve Pain: A Guide for Patients and Families. The video and guidebook are aimed at answering important questions for people who suffer from nerve pain due to diabetes and can be viewed and downloaded for free by visiting www.aan.com/patients. Printed copies of the guidebook and video may be purchased at www.aan.com/store.
More than 3 million Americans went to hospital emergency rooms seeking relief from headaches in 2008; 81,000 people were admitted.
One in four Americans suffers from chronic pain due to disease—including cancer and HIV—and the medications used to treat those diseases. One reason for the persistence of chronic pain may be that the patient’s central nervous system creates abnormal connections or improves connections that shouldn’t be strengthened.
Experiments in rats show that a standardized ginkgo extract—injected either into the spinal canal or directly into the injured area—effectively reduces inflammation and some types of pain, according to a report in the May issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
When doctors own or lease MRI equipment, their patients are more likely to receive scans for low back pain.
University of Adelaide researchers have shown for the first time how peppermint helps to relieve Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which affects up to 20% of the population.
Author helps migraine sufferers target their underlying "dis-ease."
A Mayo Clinic case study finds Botox may offer new hope to patients suffering disabling low cerebrospinal fluid headaches. The successful treatment also offers new insight into Botox and headache treatment generally. The case study was presented March 13th, 2011 at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Hawaii.
The American Association of Neuromuscular & and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM), in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR), released a new guideline on the most effective treatments for diabetic nerve pain, the burning or tingling pain in the hands and feet that affects millions of people with diabetes.
A leading panel of neurologists, including a University of Maryland physician, has issued new recommendations to help doctors offer the most up-to-date treatments for people with diabetic neuropathy.
New progress, new hope in targeting the pain of chemotherapy; Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy has been one of the most difficult types of pain to target/treat.
Meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain, according to new research published in the April 6 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience.
Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a group of inflammatory conditions causing spine and joint pain and deformity, mostly in young men. Important updates on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of SpA are presented in the April issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (AJMS), official journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Scientists discuss successful study results for DARA BioScience's KRN5500 for cancer pain at international ADEPT conference; better understanding placebo response versus drug effect.
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