Tuesday-Newsday #155

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Should I Take This New Prescription?”, “How to Respond When Someone Says ‘But You Don't Look Sick!’" and “Pacing: Pain and the Power of 10%”.

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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*UNDIAGNOSED DISEASES NETWORK (UDP)

Medical sleuths seek patients with mystery diseases, offer new tools

Learn more, submit your name to be included in the Undiagnosed Diseases Program 

NIH names six new clinical sites in UDP: These medical centers will select from the most difficult-to-solve patient medical cases and together develop effective approaches to diagnose them  

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS   

Facebook Chat on July 16th: “When Neuropathy and Fibromyalgia Overlap” 

Acupuncture Pain Killing Mystery Revealed

How Hot Weather Impacts Pain: Here's how you can make yourself more comfortable when temperature and humidity increases.

Early Life Pain May Affect the Next Generation

Number of Pain Sites in Older Adults Linked to Quality of Life

Dancing Can Help Senior Mobility

9 Summer Survival Tools When You Have a Chronic Illness

*MEDICATION NEWS

FDA Gives ‘Priority Review’ to New Hydrocodone Painkiller

More Painkillers May Raise Heart Risks for Older Women, But Finding Not Conclusive

New insights into pain relief drugs

Express Scripts Cuts Payments for Customized Drugs

Coalition Releases Report To Promote Safe Acetaminophen Use

If Pot Is a Drug, Why Aren’t More Pharmacists Involved With Medical Marijuana?

*PATIENT NEWS

Half of all American adults have a chronic disease - CDC

Using Your Health Plan for Doctors Who Don't Take Insurance

Medical scribes keep notes so doctors don't have to

The doctor will spy on your now: Hospitals and insurance companies are using credit card data to monitor how patients eat, whether they belong to a gym and when they smoke

Electronic medical records have security advantages, but systems aren't perfect: Questions arise after paper medical records turn up at a public dumpster

What to do if your healthcare records are compromised

*LYME DISEASE

Lyme Disease Diagnosis Dilemma: An investigation finds many Lyme disease tests are ineffective

Federal Loopholes Compromise Lyme Disease Testing

Hard Science on Lyme: Are FDA-approved tests better or worse?

New rapid test finds “off-season Lyme” and miyamotoi

Lyme Disease: A Growing Epidemic, That’s Hard To Diagnose

Many blacklegged ticks infected with Lyme disease and babesiosis: Single bite can pack double pathogen punch

Lyme disease confirmed in humans from southern states

Reducing deer populations may reduce risk of Lyme disease

Strain-specific Lyme disease immunity lasts for years

Dr. Richard Horowitz, author of "Why Can't I Get Better?" discusses chronic Lyme disease with Kathy Lee & Hoda on the Today Show

Lyme Research Alliance Video Wins 2014 Telly Award

Autism-Lyme Correlation Debunked: Researchers find zero evidence for Lyme-induced autism

*TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS (TMD)

Researchers develop new diagnostic criteria for TMD

Study Examines Treatment Responses in TMD Patients

New implant eases Rotator Cuff pain: Already in use in Europe and Israel, the InSpace Balloon cushions between two rubbing bones, alleviating pain and shortening the rehab process

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Even if a Featured Blog Post is written specifically with emphasis on one chronic pain condition, it may still have information and ideas which can help people with any type of chronic pain/illness. I always select posts which I think can provide help for the widest audience.

Should I Take This New Prescription? Here’s how I make educated choices on taking new prescriptions

by Ilana Jacqueline at Let’s Feel Better

AWAP: How to Respond When Someone Says "But You Don't Look Sick!"

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe

Pacing: Pain and the Power of 10%

from Pain Pathways magazine