Tuesday-Newsday #197

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! This week focus is on Parkinson’s Disease and also Psoriatic Arthritis. The Featured Blog Posts this week are all connected to Employment/Career when you live with chronic pain.

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

FDA aproves Oxycodone HCl liquid for chronic pain, one of the few generic versions of this product

Illinois Lawmakers Approve Bottle Locking Bill for Painkillers; Will be first of its kind if signed by governor

opinion: There is No 'Epidemic' of Painkiller Overdoses

White House Removes Major Barrier To Marijuana Research

Doctors discourage pregnant women from marijuana use due to potential effects on baby's brain, new guidelines state

Synthetic Pot a Growing Danger, CDC Report Finds

Biosimilars Arena Still Littered With Litigation

FDA Seizes Counterfeit Drugs, Devices Sold Online: International effort takes aim at more than 1,050 websites

Potent approach shows promise for chronic pain

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Survey for Pain Patients: Share Your Opinion

Chronic Pain Patients Who Fail Standard Treatment: Now What?

Take Charge of Your Pain Care

American surgery patients - more pain medication, yet more pain! extends to secondhand smoke, too 

Text Messaging Reduces Pain Medicine Requirements During Surgery

Smokers May Need More Anesthesia, Painkillers for Surgery; Small study finds effect 

New research may help smokers with chronic pain quit

Exploring The Link Between Genetics and Chronic Pain Conditions

*PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Opioid offers pain relief for Parkinson’s patients

Parkinson's patient experiences symptom relief with new medication Duopa

Deep Brain Stimulation May Ease Parkinson's Pain for Years

Noninvasive brain stimulator may ease Parkinson's symptoms in a patient's home

Diary App Helps Track Disease Progress in Parkinson's Patients

Acupuncture relieves Parkinson’s disease symptoms

NY dance company promotes dance therapy for Parkinson's disease patients

Using music & dance to ease muscle stiffness of Parkinson's disease

Feldenkrais Method Exercise Promising for Parkinson's

Altered Pain Processing in Patients with Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's

*PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS

Psoriasis Costs Americans Up to $135 Billion Annually

A need for global awareness of the burden of psoriatic arthritis

PsA patients and doctors most likely to disagree on pain, fatigue, tender joint count

Stelara Eases Spine Symptoms in PsA

Golimumab (Simponi) Effective Long-Term Treatment for PsA

Otezla Eases Severe Joints in Psoriatic Arthritis

European Union approves Otelza for psoriatis arthritis

NICE rejects Otezla for psoriatic arthritis coverage in the U.K. because of cost-cutting

Study: Stopping biologic before surgery could lead to PsA flare

Psoriatic arthritis drug Ixekizumab succeeds in late-stage study

Drug-Free Remission Unlikely for PsA, very small study finds

Injury May Trigger Psoriatic Arthritis

Study Reveals That Many Patients of PsA Are Undertreated

Many psoriasis patients have undiagnosed arthritis: Skin problems may be focused on to exclusion of other symptoms

Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Will Soon Get New Guidelines

Psoriatic Arthritis Patients "pSAY YES!" to a Different Approach to Disease Management

Psoriatic arthritis can stress even a strong marriage

Researchers have identified a gene behind Psoriatic Arthritis

Delayed Diagnosis in PsA Worsens Damage, Disability

New Treatment Paradigms in Psoriatic Arthritis

Psoriatic Arthritis: Current Therapy and Future Approaches

Multiple benefits seen with intensive psoriatic arthritis therapy

Patients with psoriatic arthritis mutilans have higher burden of disease

Why psoriasis is less common in Asians

How to Explain Psoriatic Arthritis

National Psoriasis Foundation website: resources, information, videos, and much more

*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.

When do I bring up workplace accommodations during a job search?

Jenni Prokopy, editrix of Chronic Babe

Should I tell my client I have a chronic illness?

Jenni Prokopy, editrix of Chronic Babe

Re-Entering the Workforce with a Chronic Condition

by David Heitz

Five Basic Rules for Dealing with Chronic Illness and Your Career

by Ilana Jacqueline at Let’s Feel Better

Tuesday-Newsday #196

Note: Due to technical difficulties and schedule conflict, Tuesday-Newsday is a day late. Sorry about that. Here at last is this week's post...

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! This week focus is on Cancer Pain. The Featured Blog Posts this week are all connected to parenting when you have chronic pain.

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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*ALERT*: FDA warns not use this herbal supplement marketed for joint pain: GC Natural's Pyrola Advanced Joint Formula 

*MEDICATION NEWS

Medicare Drug Plans Favor Generic Opioids Over Abuse-Deterrent Formulations

Abuse-Deterrent Painkillers Resist Misuse, But Experts Worry The Protections Are Misunderstood and Mislead Us to Think They Are Less Addictive

How to manage pain in the ER: Ask the patient

Chronic Pain Patients and their Physicians – Is a Reboot Coming?

FL Pharmacists discuss issues causing prescription drug problems

When Treating Pain Brings a Criminal Indictment

opinion: A large number of chronically ill & disabled are being denied access to their Pain Rx

Overdose & Theft: Safe & Responsible Use of Narcotics

Taking Your Opiates on Vacation

Colorado's Supreme Court rules that employers can fire workers who use medical marijuana even though it's legal in that state

State-by-state guide to marijuana legalisation in the U.S.

All Forms of Medical Marijuana Now Legal in Canada

25% patients don’t identify with the marketing aimed at them by drug companies

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Brain inflammation links chronic pain with depression

Researchers study the differences in how men and women express pain and how it might impact overall health (link to pain survey for patients)

IV therapy could be the cure for hangovers and chronic pain

How much does it hurt? Company is developing software that uses EEG measurements to objectively answer the question

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain Led to Decreased Healthcare Costs and Improved Functional Measures

Device treats chronic pain using an iPod---Bluetooth technology allows patients to control treatment

Subconscious Therapy Can Improve Pain Tolerance

New findings about mechanisms underlying chronic pain reveal novel therapeutic strategies

Researchers to look for patterns in patient data from ManagingLife's pain diary app

'Talk Therapy' May Help Persistent Sleeplessness

Qigong can help in relieving chronic pain

*CANCER PAIN

Company Stops Producing Cancer Pain Med Pump: SynchroMed II

FDA OK of 1st 'Biosimilar' Drug May Mean Cheaper Options for Patients: Zarxio is a stand-in for a cancer drug Neupogen

New drug Anisina hoped to reduce chemotherapy pain

Spanish lollipop relieves the pain of chemotherapy

Many Inappropriate Medications Taken by Older Cancer Patients

Opioids, Long-Term Cancer Pain and Endocrinopathy

Cancer pain drug Kominox hits global market, company hopes for future FDA approval

Setback in Medical Marijuana Study for Cancer Pain: Sativex worked no better than placebo

Legal 'E-spliff' KanaVape helps relieve pain of MS and cancer patients - without the cannabis high

Cancer and cannabis: How I learned to stop worrying and love medical marijuana

Ayurvedic Remedy for Oral Cancer Pain Shows Promise in Small Study

Cancer Doctors Don't Discuss Herbs, Supplements With Patients

The tiny bubbles filled with drugs could transform cancer treatment, could reduce side effects of chemotherapy and make medication more effective 

Study shows integrative medicine relieves pain and anxiety for cancer inpatients

Nerve Involvement Explains Why Some Cancers Are Very Painful

Scientists investigate sound waves for burning away cancer pain

Palliative Care in Cancer: Earlier Is Better

Oncology Massage Helps Cancer Patients Manage Treatment

Qigong for cancer patients

Managing Cancer Pain: A NEW Definition of Success

Cancer pain: Relief is possible

Physical Therapy Can Aid in Cancer Recovery, including from pain and peripheral neuropathy

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Tuesday-Newsday #195

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! This week our subject focus is on Spondyloarthritis (Anklosing/Axial) and also Medical Marijuana. 

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

Have Pharmacies Gone Too Far? Florida Seeks an Answer 

update: State pharmacy board heard from pain sufferers who have been unable to get their prescriptions filled

Should Physicians Prescribing Opioids Be Confident In Managing Chronic Pain?

New Personalized Less Invasive Medical Monitoring: Drug Screening of Patients on Opioids

Legislators Press FDA to Add Black Box Warning to Immediate-Release Opioids

TIME Magazine Releases Cover Story on Opioid Pain Killers

Five Ways TIME Gets Pain Pills So Wrong

New study finds patients are not reading drug labels, making unwise choices about taking two or more OTC drugs at same time

RxRights Petition Urges Congress to Allow Americans Access to Canadian Medicine

In 21st Century Cures bill, voucher program to incentivize pediatric drug development raises questions

Will the 21st Century Cures Bill Lower Standards for Some Drug Approvals?

Drug company announces independent bioethicists to determine if dying patients should be allowed emergency access to experimental Rx

*MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Overall marijuana exposure of children under age 6 is rising: In states with legalized medical marijuana, the rate of exposure is almost 610%

Medical Marijuana for Pain: Many Questions Remain

Cannabis Harms Brain, Imaging Shows

opinion: Doctors don’t support medical pot

Medicinal cannabis to relieve chronic non-cancer pain likely to be more risky than beneficial, say top pain specialists down under

Medical Marijuana Amendment Passes U.S. House

Medical Marijuana for Veterans?

More on Marijuana and Opioid Mix

Why Doctors Are Slow to Embrace Medical Marijuana

opinion: Is the medical marijuana debate even worth having?

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Your Medical Data, Cybercriminals' Holy Grail, Now Espionage Target

Chronic Pain and Sleep? Big Problem

Pain Drains the Brain: Why We Forget

Mindfulness as Effective as Cognitive Behaviorial Therapy (CBT) in Pain Catastrophizing

Integrative medicine has positive impact on chronic pain, depression, patient activation

Scientists discover way to grow neurons from a blood sample, which could used to experiment with innovative pain control treatments

People with a rare genetic mutation who can't feel pain are revolutionizing how we treat it

Study explores the concept of “homuncular flexibility, which will soon be studied for use in treating pain

How to Talk to Your Pain Doctor – One Patient’s Response

Living with chronic pain: Stop Worrying

Dry Needling: The Most Painful Thing I’ve Ever Loved

*SPONDYLOARTHRITIS - ANKLOSING / AXIAL

NSAIDs in Spondlyarthritis: Sorting Risks

Study Suggest Combo DMARD-TNF Inhibitor for Spondyloarthritis Helpful, But Questions Remain

Secukinumab Suppresses Signs and Symptoms of Active Ankylosing Spondylitis

Long-term Adalimumab treatment shows sustained benefits in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Smoking impairs treatment response in inflammatory back arthritis

Depression may run with opiate use in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Markers Predict Worsening of Ankylosing spondylitis

Physically Demanding Work May Increase Effects of Inflammation in Ankylosing Spondylitis

New insight into risk of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Ankylosing Spondylitis: More Than Just the Spine

Gene test for ankylosing spondylitis steps closer

Physically demanding work may increase effects of inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis

Restless Leg Syndrome Common in Ankylosing Spondylitis

iAnkylosing Spondylitis Pro App Simplifies a Complicated Condition

Depression, anxiety common in patients with axial spondyloarthritis

SAA’s Spondylitis Educational Seminar (Videos)

*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.

The Elevator Pitch: How to Quickly Explain Your Disease 

by Ilana Jacqueline at Let’s Feel Better

Chronic Pain: How Can You Feel Like You Belong?

by Maureen for Beliefnet

What does it mean to be "As Well As Possible?"

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of Chronic Babe

Tuesday-Newsday #194

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to going to college when you have chronic pain/illness.

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

Tramadol ER Visits Soar as Prescriptions Rise

Study Links Painkillers to Homicides

National Pain Strategy Public Comment Closed – Robust Response Reported

FDA Releases Final Guidance for Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

The Prescription Drug Abuse Caucus: What Does It Mean to Chronic Pain Sufferers?

Is Senate Prescription Drug Caucus the Wrong Prescription?

One Pain Doctor’s Opinion of 6 Ways to End the Opioids Crisis

A New Voice for Chronic Pain, and Her Thoughts on the National Pain Strategy

Patients sound off on how urine drug tests are unreliable or misinterpreted by doctors 

Georgia and Tennessee both approve bills allowing Biosimilar medicines

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Insomniacs May Be More Sensitive to Pain

Fibromyalgia Research Finds It’s Worse than Chronic Pain Alone, but Exercise Helps

Cognitively Impaired Individuals Perceive Pain Differently

A better understanding of links between pain and anxiety reveals treatment opportunities

Neurocognitive Tests Potential Tool for Understanding Impairments in Chronic Pain Patients

NFMCPA Advocate Voice spring edition (breaking news on chronic pain & fibromyalgia)

*PEDIATRIC PAIN

Babies May Be More Sensitive to Pain Than Adults

Children with serious medical diagnoses or chronic pain can suffer from "Medical PTSD"

Coordinated Care Through 'Medical Home' Best for Chronically Ill Kids: Study

Acupuncture Eases Pain For Children

Listening to music or audio books significantly eases kids’ pain from surgery

Hospital uses certified music therapists to interactively address the physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of pediatric patients

Meet MEDi, the Robot Taking Pain Out of Kids' Hospital Visits

New method for measuring pediatric pain uses software to read kids' facial expressions

Child life specialists help chronically ill kids in the hospital to deal with pain, coping, and much more

Children’s Use of Complementary Health Approaches

Parents of mentally ill children grapple with chronic pain & grief

Global Initiative To Address Pain in Children

Pediatric Pain Management

Why does children’s pain get short shrift?

Psychological Predictors Can Identify Children at Risk for Higher Pain Intensity After Surgery

WebTIPS helps ease pain & anxiety for children undergoing surgery -- and for their parents, too

Parents Play Role in Child's Postop Pain

Telehealth visits allow UCSF pediatric pain patients to continue care from home 

Innovative kids' pain clinic opens in Twin Cities

CHEO gets funding to help children with chronic pain 

Helping children push past the pain at Boston Children’s Hospital

BMC engages pediatrics, psychiatry, family and integrative medicine for children with chronic pain

Sleep researchers warn doctors and parents NOT to give Melatonin to children

Teen with painful condition proposes legislation for service dogs to be covered by insurance

Children & Chronic Illness: Info and Resources

Website for Teens with Chronic Illness

7 Things I Want Teens Diagnosed With a Chronic Illness to Know

Surviving the rabbit hole when your child lives with a chronic pain condition

That Space Between Us (How a parent can bridge the emotional distance to a child in pain)

*JUVENILE ARTHRITIS (JRA / SJIA)

Juvenile Arthritis National Conference July 23 - 26

2015 JA Conference: Scholarships

Juvenile Arthritis Camps All Around the Country

Enbrel Carries Higher Infection Risk in JIA

Safety Holds Up for Anti-TNF in JIA

Most Kids Feel Mild Pain From Subcutaneous Methotrexate

Pattern of Drug Treatment Withdrawal Affects Flare

Adverse Events Common With Biologics

Liquid Naproxen for JA returns to market in Canada

Antibiotic use in children linked to JIA

JIA Patients May Be Undertreated

Flares Likely in Arthritic Kids After Quiescence

Discover an app to help children cope with JA pain

Hip replacement an excellent option for young JA patients

Questions on JIA Treatment (scroll halfway down the page)

JIA health status worsens in adulthood

The Disease Affecting 300,000 Kids in the United States That You Don't Know About

*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.

10 Tips For College Students With Disabilities

by Kathleen Masterson

Chronic Illness & Going to College

by Emily Bradley of Chronic Curve

Don't let chronic fatigue stop you going to university
by Rhiannon Starr

 

Colleges Could Do More for Students With Chronic Ills
by Amy Norton for Health Day