Tuesday-Newsday #91

It’s time for Tuesday-Newsday! For this special holiday week, I’ve chosen two Featured Blog Posts to share: 1.) Head-Off Holiday Stress by Educating Loved-Ones About Your Health Limitations by Toni Bernhard, and 2.) Thanksgiving: Are You Really Truly Grateful? Prove It! by Jinny Ditzler

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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*UPDATE ON MENINGITIS OUTBREAK*

Current Count from the CDC: 490 Cases, 34 Deaths, 12 Joint Infections

Pharmacy owner refuses to testify about fungal outbreak in Congressional hearing

FDA to Congress: Fungal meningitis outbreak could happen again

Meningitis Deaths Stir a Dispute in Congress on Powers of FDA

Critics say Medicare may promote risky drug compounding which resulted in Meningitis Outbreak

*MEDICATION NEWS

Compounding Pharmacists Oppose More Regulations, Even After the Meningitis Outbreak

Acetaminophen Needs Better Labeling

Abuse rates of reformulated opioid Oxycodone are significantly lower than for the original formulation

Stock price soars for small Calif. company trying develop vending machines for medical marijuana

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

An end to the agony: Drug companies and doctors are starting to tackle pain not as a symptom but as an ailment in its own right

The teenage children of parents who suffer chronic pain are at higher risk of suffering pain themselves

Blogging helps chronic pain patients feel less isolated

Brain White Matter Structure May Predict Chronic Pain Vulnerability 

One man feels no pain, and another man always does: Why pain is a necessity for us

By understanding what has gone wrong in them scientists are starting to unravel the complexities of the relationship between the hard-wiring of our pain circuits and the influence of our brains in experiencing and processing pain.

The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly: The story of the girl who cannot feel pain

(video) Living with Chronic Pain: Some people look healthy on the outside, but inside they're suffering from crippling pain. Why is it so hard to get help and acceptance?

*PATIENT NEWS

Protect yourself from medical identity theft

An impostor who steals your medical information and uses your identity to get healthcare could pose more than one type of problem. Read this article to find precautions and strategies to protect yourself.

Medical studies with striking results often prove false when others try to replicate them

Patient treatment preferences 'often misdiagnosed': Doctors are failing to really listen to patients' views on how they want to be treated

*MILITARY VETERANS and PAIN

Increasing number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer spinal pain

Troops transitioning out not always getting prompt pain and psychiatric meds

Soldiers receive alternative pain management

Pianist Teaches Veterans How to Play Instruments for Therapy for Pain, Depression

War vets find solace in four-legged friends

*LYME DISEASE

Guidance For Retreatment Of Lyme Disease May Be Flawed

Lyme Rash Reappearance Probably Signals New Infection: It's even more likely when bull's-eye rash shows up on different part of body

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Head-Off Holiday Stress by Educating Loved-Ones About Your Health Limitations

by Toni Bernhard 

Thanksgiving: Are You Really Truly Grateful? Prove It!

by Jinny Ditzler