Tuesday-Newsday #76

It’s time for Tuesday-Newsday! The featured blog post this week is “Do You Ever Wonder, In Your Life With Chronic Pain?” by Sue Falkner-Wood.

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. I always include the citation, source, or website so you know where it came from. As is the case with any health info, ALWAYS get your doctor's opinion first!

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*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Physical Ailments Take Toll on Mental Health: People with severe or chronic illness have much higher odds of needing psychiatric care

Head of Pain Society says Furor over Addiction is Hurting Patients and Fundraising

Nurse revolutionizes pain management, gains national following

Harp Music Stabilizes Blood Pressure, Lessens Pain In ICU Patients: Study

A physiotherapist’s pain assessment flowchart: Used to decipher a patient’s puzzle of complex pain, disability, and loss

*PAIN Rx

Living with Pain: PROP’s Misleading Petition to Change the Labelling on Opioid Painkllers

Caught in the Crossfire: Untold Stories of the War on Drugs

Researcher Says Marijuana is Safer Alternative to Painkillers

Researchers Developing Liver And Joint "Tissue Chips" To Better Predict Drug Safety

Report: Generic drugs saved $193 billion in 2011

*PATIENT NEWS

More consumers may be getting checkups and other health care at stores and pharmacies: If you thought it was hard getting a doctor's appointment now, just wait until 30 million more Americans join the line through the Affordable Care Act

“...by 2020 the U.S. faces an estimated shortage of 40,000 primary-care doctors with no way to remedy that in just a few years...”

Burned-out nurses linked to more infections in patients

Lack of sleep may make vaccines less effective

Smiling Reduces Stress And Helps The Heart

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITIONS

Chronic vulvar pain related to irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia and interstitial cystitis

More Proof Cranberry Juice Thwarts Infection: Popular folk remedy holds up in analysis of 13 previous studies on urinary tract infections

Fibroid embolization 'fails' more in young women

Managing Uterine Fibroids: Alternatives to Hysterectomy

Pelvic Venous Congestion: A Real Cause of Pelvic Pain?

Small Study Finds Sunscreen Ingredient Linked to Endometriosis

*FOOT PAIN

Standard radiation therapy dose provides relief for painful plantar fasciitis

New Therapy Might Help Relieve Painful Foot Condition: Preliminary study suggests it could work in hard-to-treat cases of plantar fasciitis

Treatment For Painful Flat Feet On The Horizon

Infrared Light Therapy Can Help Kick Foot Pain

*FEATURED BLOG POST

Do You Ever Wonder, In Your Life With Chronic Pain?

by Sue Falkner-Wood