O Christmas tree: Your bark may fight arthritis
...may mean that people with arthritis may ease their pain by eating food supplements made from Christmas trees, says study leader Kalevi Pihlaja, Ph.D., a chemistry professor at the University of Turku in Finland. He cautions that the extract used in this study has not yet been tested in animals or humans. ...Long-term data show benefit of DETROL LA as first-line therapy for overactive bladder
...LA 6 percent vs. placebo 4 percent), and abdominal pain (DETROL LA 4 percent vs. placebo 2 percent)....Families inform roadmap to improve care for dying in nursing homes
...icans dies in a nursing home, yet basic needs for pain medication, emotional support, hospice care often go unmet, according to a new study conducted by Brown Medical School researchers and published by AARP. In the report, experts offer several recommendations to improve end-of-life care in nursing hom...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...tery, symptoms can range from minor and occasional pain due to clenching the jaw or grinding the teeth to severe, debilitating pain that requires hospitalization or surgery. Because the TMJ is essential for basic functions like spea...Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for Dec. 2004
...h spinal fusion is a common treatment for low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease, it limits the range of motion in the spine and may cause extra wear and tear on surrounding spinal discs. That's just one of the reasons that Cedars-Sinai is exploring innovative and minimally invasive surgical al...Aromatase inhibitors should be first-line treatment for certain type of breast cancer
...wer side effects although bone fractures and joint pain were more common than among women given tamoxifen. Lead investigator Anthony Howell (Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester, UK) comments: "Results from studies evaluating aromatase inhibitors after 23 years or 5 years of adjuvant tamoxifen, compare...Child health must become UNICEF's priority over next decade
...ns little to a child stillborn, an infant dying in pain from pneumonia, or a child desiccated by famine. The most fundamental right of all is the right to survive. Child survival must sit at the core of UNICEF's advocacy and country work. Currently, and shamefully, it does not." The previous three execut...First-ever safety study of medical cannabis use in Canada launched
..., the research initiative will follow 1400 chronic pain patients, 350 of whom use cannabis as part of their pain management strategy, for a one-year period. Seven participating pain clinics across Canada are now e...Studies reveal physicians' attitudes on end-of-life care
...ntensive treatment to lessen otherwise untreatable pain or other severe symptoms in dying patients even if...nt decisions, some of which are focused on extreme pain and other symptoms that are very challenging to control," Kaldjian said. "We studied the specific et...Dec. 7 tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine
...se of rofecoxib and celecoxib (two COX-2 inhibitor pain killers often used for arthritis pain) and NANSAIDs in a group of 1,718 people admitted to hospitals with a first, nonfatal myocardial infarction and a comparison group who did not have myocardial infarction. They found that people who used the olde...Two days of post-surgical pain relief now possible with just one shot
...dural injection that can provide up to 48 hours of pain control to help ease pain for people undergoing major surgery in the United States. Every year, millions of Americans undergo ...Nursing homes register 41 percent drop in residents' pain
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Relieving pain in nursing home residents doesn't require addition... mentoring and most importantly rapid changes in pain assessment and treatment. Researchers at Brown Medical School and health care experts at Quality...November/December 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...betes, lung disease, hypertension, cancer, chronic pain and heart disease. The authors note that while study participants reported an average of 3.8 chronic medical illnesses, depression severity made larger independent contributions to mental functional status, disability and quality of life than the med...Outpatient lung cancer procedure promising for inoperable disease
...erapy, Dr. Dupuy said. "Ablation can relieve pain and control local symptoms in these patients," Dr. Dupuy said. "It does not necessarily extend their lives, but it can improve their quality of life." Co-authors study are Caroline J. Simon, M.D., William W. Mayo-Smith, M.D., Thomas A. DiPetril...Virtual colonoscopy can help patients avoid conventional colonoscopy
...oscopy, the procedure does not require intravenous pain medications, sedation or recovery room time," said Perry J. Pickhardt, MD, from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and lead author on the paper. For the study, 1,339 patients with no symptoms underwent both virtual colonoscopy and conventiona...MRI-guided ultrasound therapy relieves symptoms in patients with uterine fibroids
...c said. One patient had sciatic nerve damage with pain and mild weakness, but this resolved itself quickly. One patient was kept overnight because she had a reaction to the sedation she was given, Dr. Gedroyc said. "There were several instances where patients had prolonged menstrual bleeding, but this wa...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...ent and settlements. "The diagnosis of lower back pain is a bugaboo in medicine today," Tait said. "It is not an exact science. There is no well-recognized paradigm for diagnosing and treating back pain. Consequently treatment decisions often are based on clinical judgment. "Those judgments may be affec...MRC study reinforces effectiveness of spinal manipulation
... Journal, found that a collective approach to back pain treatment provided "significant relief of symptoms...ly, the study found that the greatest reduction of pain and the greatest improvement in back function was experienced by patients who received a treatment a...FDA grants accelerated approval of TYSABRI, formerly antegren, for the treatment of MS
...pression, lower respiratory tract infection, joint pain and abdominal discomfort. The rate of infection in both studies was approximately one per patient-year in both TYSABRI-treated patients and placebo-treated patients. Serious infections occurred in 1.3 percent of placebo-treated patients and 2.1 pe...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
...tudy found. Loss in brain density is related to pain duration, indicating that 1.3 cubic centimeters of...udy, the first to examine brain changes in chronic pain conditions, was published in the Nov. 23 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience . At least 25 perce...