Tuesday-Newsday #159

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “9 Things I Have Learned Through 20 Years of Chronic Illness”, “How do I stay on top of work while dealing with my chronic illness?” and “Things WILL Get Better.”

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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*MEDICATION NEWS

Pain Patients Can Have Good Outcomes With Long-Term Opioids

Painkiller Zohydro Sales Growing

Drug Related Suicide Attempts Soar in U.S.

NIDA Study Cites Dangers of Marijuana Use in Teens

Animal Therapy Reduces Need for Pain Meds, Study Finds

Advanced thin-film technique could deliver long-lasting medication

Researchers concerned about safety of new drugs

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS 

Study seeking women for a short online survey for feedback on issues faced by women in chronic pain

Medical labs to get new FDA oversight

For Pain Patients, the Physical and Emotional Are Intertwined

Pain Assessment Very Difficult in Deaf Patients

New Treatment Technique Iovera Works To Freeze Away Chronic Knee Pain

Meeting Pain with Mindfulness

Ask Dr. Beth: How Do I Find a Pain Psychologist?

The Startup That’s Helping a Preeminent Research University with Clinical Trials for Chronic Pain

Unspeakable pain: As many suffer in silence, a local initiative in Kansas City seeks to lift the shadows

Play An Active Role in Your Healthcare Through Clinical Trials 

Vitamin D – could it stop 'modern’ diseases such as MS, diabetes, schizophrenia and asthma?

Weight machines and stretching increase risk of lower back pain

Summer Road Trips and Back Pain

Foods that fight inflammation

*GERIATRIC PAIN

National Institute on Aging Supports Research on Pain in Older People

Importance Of Senior Pain Management

Ignoring pain can lead to problems, hasten death for elderly

Disabling back pain increases mortality risk for older women

Older Adults Feel Less Hip and Knee Pain When Moving to the Grooving

Pain Management in Dementia

*MILITARY VETERANS PAIN 

Veterans with chronic pain voice problems with VA’s new pain killer policy

Many U.S. Vets Suffer Chronic Pain, Take Narcotic Painkillers: Better pain management techniques needed, researchers say

opinion: The VA’s Pain Care Cluster

The Heartbreaking Suicide Note Left by a Navy Vet Suffering from Chronic Pain Who Killed Himself in Front of a VA Clinic

Telecare Intervention Improves Chronic Pain for VA Patients

Senator backs alternative treatments for vets' pain

Muscle and Bone Injuries, Mental Disorders Plagued U.S. Iraq War Vets

Head Injuries Tied to Higher Migraine Risk for Veterans

For troops, concussions from blast waves or impact are equally disabling

Battlefield Acupuncture; fighting the pain

Family of Iraq veteran forms nonprofit center in D.C. to research unexplained illnesses

VA rejects link between Gulf War service and cancers

New research links Iraq dust to ill soldiers

Iraq War Vet Lived to See Birth of 'Burn Pit' Registry for Ill Troops

Gulf War Illness Not in Veterans’ Heads But in Their Mitochondria

Chronic pain strongly reduced by brief PTSD therapy

Ketamine Significantly Improves PTSD Symptoms

Too Little Known About PTSD Treatments for Veterans, Experts Say: Therapies are costing federal agencies millions, but it's unclear which work best

Healing warriors by making a census of combat wounds' microbiota

Pattern of errors, sporadic review in military hospitals

Veterans Turning To American Legion For Medical Care

Operation Shifting Gears: Cycling for a Change, Encouraging, Facilitating, and Empowering Wounded Veterans

Veteran and 9-11 hero shares his chronic pain story

Two-wheel therapy comes to Segway-riding veterans in pain

Wounded Warriors find salvation in sport

*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.

9 Things I Have Learned Through 20 Years of Chronic Illness

by Lisa Copen, founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week and Rest Ministries

How do I stay on top of work while dealing with my chronic illness? (AWAP Wednesday) 

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe

Things WILL Get Better

by Kelly Patricia