Tuesday-Newsday #63

It’s time for Tuesday-Newsday! The featured writings this week are by nationally syndicated fitness, health and medicine columnist, Judy Foreman.

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WARNING:  My goal is to provide the most up-to-date news I can, which you can then take to your personal doctor and debate the merits of before you try it. I do not endorse any of the docs, treatments, info, and meds in anything I post nor can I guarantee they are all effective, especially not for everyone. I always include the citation, source, or website so you know where it came from. As is the case with any health info, ALWAYS get your doctor's opinion first!

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*PATIENT NEWS

How A Persons "Ranks" Their Suffering May Stop Them Seeking Help For Depression And Anxiety

Why hospital bills vary widely

A blood test for depression? New research points the way

*BACK PAIN & SPINE ISSUES

Back study deals blow to pain drug, Etanercept

Magnetic Rod Helps Correct Scoliosis

New study shows yoga can lessen chronic lower back pain

Pregabalin Treats Neuropathic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal Fusion on Top of Laminectomy Benefits Quality of Life

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITIONS

First Patient Treated in Trillium's Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome Clinical Trial

Germs Behind Urinary Tract Infections Becoming More Resistant to Drugs: Common antibiotics are not as effective as they used to be, researchers warn

Pain relief can fall short after gynecologic surgery

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine may help women with chronic pelvic pain

Acupuncture Relieves Gynecologic Surgery Pain

Vulvodynia Study accepted into Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Endometriosis Found in 98% of Adolescents With Chronic Pelvic Pain

Early Diagnosis, Aggressive Treatment Promising for Teen Endometriosis

Study Fine-Tunes Link Between Endometriosis, Ovarian Cancer

Rise in Publicity for Endometriosis May Cause Doctors to Misdiagnose Adhesions in Women

*GOUT

Enriched Skim Milk Good for Gout, Study Suggests: Pain, uric acid levels improved in those drinking shakes made of skim milk powders

FDA Review Has Safety Issues with Gout Drug: Arcalyst

Online Gout Community Boasts the Largest Following Worldwide

*FEATURED BLOG POST

My Saturday blog post about the war against prescription painkillers was not the only one out there this week. Here are two related items from the blog of nationally syndicated fitness, health and medicine columnist, Judy Foreman:

~The Hysteria About Prescription Pain Killers

~Blue Cross Painkiller Policy Risks Hurting Patients