Tuesday-Newsday #103

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Post this week is, “Decisions, Decisions” about planning and pacing when you live with chronic pain, from the PainSupportUK newsletter by Jan Sadler.

Let Me Know: If you’d like me to watch for articles on your pain condition, just drop me a note in the comments section below. 

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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*MENINGITIS OUTBREAK NEWS 

Current Count: 720 Cases, 48 Deaths, Joint Infections 34

Interim Treatment Guidance for this Meningitis Outbreak

*MEDICATION NEWS

Looking at the full picture & all the data: Are Drug Overdose Deaths Still Rising in U.S.?

FDA Delays Decision on Whether to Approve New Painkiller Zohydro

Advocates call new NY law targeting painkiller abuse a national model, but critics call program unwieldy and unhelpful

FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Development

Sharp Rise in Suboxone Emergency Room Visits

New Legislation Aims to Limit Cost of Certain Drugs: The Patients' Access to Treatment Act (PATA) would cap payments for “specialty tier” drugs, including biologics

FDA Issues Draft Guidance for Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Development

*PATIENT NEWS

Is Too Much E-Communication Swamping Doctors? In survey of VA docs, 30% said they'd missed patient test results

Choosing Wisely: Doctors question routine tests & treatments

To Cover Medical Bills, the Uninsured Get Creative

Sitting For Long Hours Increases Risk Of Chronic Diseases

U.S. Doctors Slow To Adopt Electronic Health Records: Despite incentives, just 1 in 6 uses the new technology, study finds

Is Your Doctor Getting Paid by Big Pharma?

Think preventive medicine will save money? Think again

Parents seek answers to medical mysteries through DNA testing

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITIONS

FDA approves new drug Osphena for painful sex in women

Iron-Rich Diet Might Ease PMS Misery: Plant-based foods with iron, zinc may help stave off monthly symptoms, study found

Thousands hope hysterectomies will end their monthly pain - but it can often make it WORSE

Endometriosis tied to higher risk of Crohn’s disease

A reporter's battle with endometriosis forces her to leave her job as a CNN correspondent

Endometriosis Awareness Month Starts March 1st

Chronic pelvic pain patients may also have bladder pain syndrome and endometriosis

For Women With Pelvic Girdle Pain, Vaginal Delivery Is The Safest Option

Chronic Pelvic Pain patient tells of recovery & healing with the new wearable therapeutic ultrasound device, PainShield® MD (click to watch 10 minute video)

New Pelvic Pain Diary by KevMed Will Help Chronic Pelvic Pain, IC, and IBS Patients Take Charge of Their Condition

Chronic Pain in Women: video overview of the types of pain of most relevance to women from 2011 Stanford Women's Health Forum lecture

African-American Women Who Suffered Abuse During Childhood At Increased Risk For Uterine Fibroids

*BACK PAIN

Study Seeking Patients: Medtronic Initiates Landmark Study Of Neurostimulation Therapy For Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

A New Way to Assess Nonspecific Back Pain

Talk Therapy May Treat Low Back Pain

Two Alternative Ways to Treat Back Pain

Steroid Injections May Make Back Pain Worse

Pre-Op Physiatry Consultation Reduces Spinal Surgery Rates

New Pictures In Motion Technique Helping Back Pain Sufferers

Spine zapper 'fixes' backs: New device using high-frequency electrical pulse to revolutionise back pain treatment

Smoking & Back Pain: What’s The Connection?

Antibiotics decreased pain scores in patients with chronic low back pain

Studies Target Treatment, Burden of Neuropathic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal cancer: Guidelines for diagnosis unsupported in patients with lower back pain

*FEATURED BLOG POST

Decisions, Decisions 

from the PainSupportUK Newsletter by Jan Sadler