Today’s subjects are from these categories: WARNING: OTC Drug Alert, Pain Rx News, Patient News, Lupus, and Osteoarthritis. The final category is Planning to Help Manage Pain and the article is titled, “Surviving the Holidays: Give yourself the G.I.F.T. of a stress-free holiday.”
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*WARNING*: OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUG ALERT
*PAIN Rx NEWS
*PATIENT NEWS
*LUPUS
*OSTEOARTHRITIS
*PLANNING TO HELP MANAGE PAIN
That article on atrophy was really interesting, especially because I just came across this trial earlier in the week, which is using a beta-blocker (propanolol) combined with a long-acting NSAID (etodolac) to treat cachexia in cancer patients: http://www.asco.org/ascov2/Meetings/Abstracts?&vmview=abst_detail_view&confID=74&abstractID=49474
ReplyDeletePropanolol helps to regulate stress hormones, so it would seem like a highly useful treatment for cachexia/atrophy/"wasting" that accompanies chronic inflammatory disease. Thanks for posting these news updates!
Megan,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you've found something helpful and interesting in the articles I chose this week! I always hope I'll find a study or a medication or a treatment that a patient out there needs to learn about to make their life better.
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-Shannon