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News: May 28, 2012
Adjusting Your Attitude About Chronic Pain May Help You Sleep
FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- People with chronic pain who learn to think less about their pain may be able to sleep better, according to a new study. They may also reduce their pain on a daily basis.
FDA Panel to Weigh Second Chance for New Class of Painkillers
MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Monday will weigh the wisdom of allowing new clinical trials of a class of powerful painkillers for osteoarthritis. The drugs may have worked so well for so...
People in Poor Neighborhoods Have More Pain, Study Finds
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Adults under the age of 50 who live in low-income neighborhoods experience more chronic pain than those in more affluent communities, new research finds. Blacks, however, experienced more chronic pain and disa...
Spouse's Reaction May Affect Pain Management
FRIDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Chronic pain can hinder communication between spouses, which, in turn, can impair the affected partner's ability to cope with the pain, according to a new study. Previous research has shown that validation of a ...
Profile Drawn of People With Chronic Jaw Pain
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- People with chronic jaw pain have increased pain sensitivity in other parts of the body, a new study says. This and other findings from the study could lead to new ways of diagnosing facial pain conditions, pre...
Study Suggests Exercise May Help Memory of Fibromyalgia Patients
SUNDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Fibromyalgia patients who stopped taking medication and then exercised regularly for six weeks reported improved memory function and less pain, according to a small, new study. While the finding is encouraging, ...
Deaths From Abuse of Painkillers Triple in a Decade: CDC
TUESDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- The number of deaths from prescription drug overdoses has tripled in a decade, hitting a peak of 36,000 fatalities in 2008, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday. "The unfortunate and shocking news is that we a...
Lazanda Approved for Cancer Pain
FRIDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Lazanda (fentanyl) nasal spray has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat breakthrough pain in adults with cancer who are already receiving opioid therapy, drug maker Archimedes Pharma sa...
Chronic Pain Often Follows Car Crash: Study
MONDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- People appear to be more likely to develop chronic pain after suffering injuries in a traffic crash than after other physically traumatic events, a new study suggests. In the study, Gareth Jones, of the Univers...
Doctors Need to Improve Guidance on Arthritis: Study
MONDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors today are more likely to advise obese arthritis patients to lose weight than 10 years ago, but they still fall short on counseling patients to exercise or learn about pain-management techniques, a new s...
1 in 5 Cancer Survivors Suffers Chronic Pain, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- More than 40 percent of cancer survivors experience pain, and the risk is highest among black and female patients, finds a new study. Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System surveyed nearly 20...
Severe Pain Can Trigger Suicide in Hospital ERs
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A group that accredits many U.S. hospitals has urged hospital and emergency-room caregivers to watch for attempted suicides occurring in their facilities -- even in patients with no history of psychiatric pro...
Zen Meditation Can Help Bring Pain Under Control
FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- People who engage in Zen meditation do feel pain, new research reveals, but they don't think about it as much. The observation could have a bearing on the treatment of chronic pain among patients struggling with...
Yoga May Combat Fibromyalgia Symptoms
THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Yoga that includes gentle stretches and meditation may help alleviate the symptoms of fibromyalgia, a small study finds. Twenty-five women diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic pain syndrome, were enrolled in...
Romantic Love: Nature's Painkiller?
THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- In a study involving a group of lovelorn Stanford undergrads, researchers discovered that high-octane romantic love might be a natural analgesic. Love's painkilling effect isn't just that the person is distrac...
Chronic Pain Part of Life for Many Americans, Survey Finds
TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 70 percent of Americans say that they or someone they care for experienced pain in the previous 30 days, a recent survey shows. Release of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) poll is part of its p...
Smoked Marijuana May Ease Chronic Nerve Pain
MONDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Smoking cannabis, also known as marijuana, reduced pain in patients with nerve pain stemming from injuries or surgical complications, new research shows. Twenty-one adults with chronic nerve pain were taught to ...
Menstrual Cramps May Alter Women's Brains
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Menstrual cramps are often dismissed as a mere nuisance, but new research suggests the monthly misery may be altering women's brains. Researchers in Taiwan used a type of brain scan known as optimized voxel-b...
Study Explores Links Between Obesity and Chronic Pain
MONDAY, July 26 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity and chronic pain are both linked with family history and mood disorders, a new study suggests. Previous research has shown that overweight people are at greater risk for chronic pain, mainly due to exces...
Chronic Pain Often Follows U.S. Soldiers Home: Study
FRIDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- At first, Darisse Smith tried to shake off the throbbing in her back and leg. An Army captain, helicopter pilot and triathlete, she was used to pushing herself physically and mentally. But as her Iraq deployment...
Brain Scans Show How Meditation Calms Pain
TUESDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- People who routinely practice meditation may be better able to deal with pain because their brains are less focused on anticipating pain, a new British study suggests. The finding is a potential boon to the esti...
Acupuncture Delivers Some Pain Relief
TUESDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture does help treat pain, a new study shows. German researchers tested pain responses in 24 healthy volunteers and found that acupuncture, which originated in China more than 2,000 years ago, increased p...
Scientists Discover Substance That Causes Pain
WEDNESDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- The human body produces a substance similar to capsaicin -- which makes chili peppers hot -- at sites of pain, and blocking production of this substance can ease pain, a new study shows. The findings may lea...
Bad Behavior in Youth Linked to Chronic Pain Later in Life
FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Children with behavioral problems are at increased risk for chronic pain when they reach adulthood, new Scottish research has found. The study of nearly 20,000 people born in 1958 found that those with "severe ...
Zen May Thicken Brain, Thwart Pain
FRIDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- If you're trying to reduce your sensitivity to pain, Zen meditation may help by actually thickening your brain, new research suggests. The authors of a new study, published in a special issue of the journal Emot...
Overdoses From Prescription Painkillers on the Rise
TUESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Overdoses from prescription painkillers are increasing in the United States, a new study shows. Researchers examined pharmacy files on 9,940 adults who took opioids such as oxycodone and hydrocodone for at leas...
Taxol Boosts Odds of Chronic Pain
MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The chemotherapy drug paclitaxel (Taxol) increases the risk of chronic neuropathic pain in breast cancer survivors, a new study shows. It included 240 women who took part in clinical trials of Taxol between 1994...
Chronic Pain Trips Up Seniors
TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Falls are a leading cause of death among older Americans, and new research confirms that chronic pain contributes to those accidents. "Pain contributes to functional decline and muscle weakness, and is associat...
Laser Therapy Seems to Relieve Neck Pain
THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Low-level laser therapy appears to ease a common form of neck pain, a review of studies finds. "It is effective against non-specific pain arising from the muscles and the joints, where there is not a clear cau...
Breast Cancer May Be Gone, But Pain Lingers
TUESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Even three years after finishing treatment for breast cancer, almost 50 percent of women report long-term pain, a new Danish study finds. The research, published in the Nov. 11 issue of the Journal of the Ameri...
Glucosamine Fails Osteoarthritis Test
TUESDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Glucosamine takes a hit in a new study that finds it doesn't prevent cartilage loss in people with osteoarthritis of the knee, University of Pittsburgh researchers report. Many arthritis sufferers take glucosam...
Some People Vulnerable to Persistent Post-Op Pain
MONDAY, Oct. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery is supposed to relieve pain from injury or disease, but new research finds that between 5 percent and 10 percent of patients don't find pain relief after an operation, and they can experience chronic pai...
Pain Robs Years From Folks at Mid-Life
TUESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Middle-aged people who suffer from chronic pain face some of the same limitations that much older people do, with similar challenges for mobility or making it through daily chores, a new study finds. Researchers...
Yoga Can Ease Lower Back Pain
TUESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Practicing yoga can help ease chronic lower back pain, a new study shows. Researchers divided 90 people, aged 23 to 66, who had mild to moderate functional disability as a result of back pain into two groups.
Imaging Sheds Light on How Acupuncture Works
THURSDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Traditional Chinese acupuncture, increasingly popular in the West for a variety of ills, eases pain by regulating key receptors in the brain, according to a new study. The study showed that acupuncture increas...
Acupuncture, Real or Fake, Eases Back Pain
TUESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Any kind of acupuncture, whether it pierced the skin or not, eased chronic lower back pain in a group of adult patients. "All were superior to usual care," said Daniel Cherkin, lead author of a report published ...
Researchers Create Long-Acting Local Anesthetic
TUESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new, slow-release injectable nerve block could be a long-lasting local anesthetic for the treatment of pain during and after surgery, U.S. researchers say. The shot may also help patients with chronic pain, ...
Collaborative Care Helps Ease Chronic Pain
TUESDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- A team effort may be a better approach to helping people battle chronic pain, new research suggests. In a study including more than 400 U.S. veterans, researchers found that a collaborative strategy for chroni...
FDA Seeks Better Regulation of Painkillers
MONDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans Monday to tackle growing concern over the misuse of powerful painkillers by requiring manufacturers of certain opioid drugs to help develop a plan to reduce t...
The Zen Way to Pain Relief
THURSDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Zen meditation appears to reduce sensitivity to moderate pain when practiced by well-trained individuals, Canadian researchers report. "Previous studies had already shown that teaching patients with chronic pa...
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