Tuesday-Newsday #83

It’s time for Tuesday-Newsday! The featured blog post this week is presented by ChronicBabe.com’s Jenni Prokopy: An expert interview with a medical billing advocate discussing how to manage your health care bills and cut costs. Learn how to protect yourself from medical billing errors and fraud!

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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. As is the case with any health info, ALWAYS get your doctor's opinion first!

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*MEDICATION NEWS

Prescription Drug Abuse Drops Among U.S. Young Adults: Survey does find marijuana use on the rise

Fewer Medications in Short Supply

Researchers Propose Plan for Managing Medication Shortages: Key components include fairness, need, transparency

Patients caught between doctors, federal scrutiny: Sufferers jump through hoops in the growing pains of the crackdown on medication

Report Finds Rx Monitoring Plans Flawed

Synthetic THC Provides Neuropathic Pain Relief, small study finds

Safely Stopping Antidepressants for Chronic Pain Patients

Doctors found to lack trust in drug company studies

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Study reveals the benefits of Alexander Technique lessons for sufferers of chronic pain

Is TENS Just a Placebo for Chronic Pain?

Train Your Brain, Reduce Your Pain: Graded Motor Imagery is a new mind-body therapy that may reduce chronic pain

Skin Deep: The Transdermal Approach to Pain Management

Naked Mole Rats May Hold Clue to Chronic Pain Relief 

*CANCER 

Poor Pain Control for Cancer Patients

L-Carnitine Does Not Reduce Cancer-Related Fatigue, Pain or Depression

Breast cancer patients are 3x more likely to have severe post-surgical pain if they have a chronic pain condition

Prostate cancer pain and side effects eased by breast cancer drug Tamoxifen

Mesothelioma Patients May Find New Pain Relief Option in Buprenorphine

Adding ketamine to opioids doesn't reduce cancer pain

Scientists believe marijuana compound could fight cancer

Life with Cancer Improves with Exercise

*MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

FDA Approves New Multiple Sclerosis Drug: Aubagio

Another New Multiple Sclerosis Drug Nearing FDA Approval: dimethyl fumarate BG-12

Discovery of immune cells that protect against multiple sclerosis offers hope for new treatment

Low vitamin D & EBV immune activity may be key to MS breakthrough within 2–3 years

Easing multiple sclerosis symptoms with food

*FEATURED BLOG POST

Expert interview on how to manage your health care bills (and cut costs)

Medical billing errors account for $17 billion a year, and crooks commit more than $80 billion a year in medical billing fraud. And you pay the price! Editrix Jenni interviewed Jean Poole, a medical billing advocate with a background in nursing and an MBA. Jean explains a tons of ins and outs of medical bills, shining a light on things everyone should know when it comes to reading bills—and not getting overcharged. 

by Jenni from ChronicBabe.com