Tuesday-Newsday #112

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! There are two Featured Blog Post this week: “Miss Understood: Being Called a Drug Seeker” by Arlene Grau and “My Emergency Room Experience (i.e.- Our Healthcare System Needs Work)” by Tracy Rydzy.

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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*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Integrative medicine interventions found to significantly reduce pain, improve quality of life: New study points to sustainable effects of patient-centered care

Fish Oil Compound May Relieve Pain

Women in Pain

Living with Pain: Failure to diagnose, depression, risk of suicide - and searching for what works to manage your pain

*MEDICATION NEWS

Pressure Grows on FDA to Change Access to Painkillers

Abuse-Deterrent Formulations of Purdue's OxyContin and Endo Pharmaceuticals' Opana ER Have Not Increased PCPs' Comfort When Prescribing These Products for Chronic Pain

More Pain Doctors Require Patients to Take Urine Tests: Behind New Rules Is a Fear of Lawsuits Tied to Overdose Deaths

New Implantable Intrathecal Drug Pump Achieves Over Six Years Longevity: Prometra Pump from Flowonix Medical Reaches Important Clinical Milestone

Study Seeking to Enroll Patients: FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to Compound Which Treats Post Surgical Pain from Knee Arthroplasty

Study Finds Tylenol-Induced Liver Failure Presents Own Set of Problems: Poorer mental, physical health reported by overdose survivors compared to other liver failure patients

Possible Fix Found For Arthritis Cox-2 Drug Side Effects

*LUPUS

New technology brings personalized lupus treatments one step closer

Lupus Hits Hardest Among Poor

Low Vitamin D Linked with Worse Lupus

Women With Lupus Seem at Higher Risk for Hip Fractures: Study followed nearly 15,000 patients for 6 years

*FIBROMYALGIA

A Test for Fibro? Researchers have discovered & patented a new blood test for fibromyalgia that should speed diagnosis

Finding another way to diagnosis Fibromyalgia: An interview with Dr. Bruce Gillis, CEO of EpicGenetics

Rational Biological Source Of Pain Found In The Skin Of Patients With Fibromyalgia

Nerve Stimulation Might Ease Fibromyalgia Pain

Weather Doesn't Trigger Fibromyalgia Symptoms: Study: But some patients still may be more sensitive than others

     ~Researchers respond to fibro patients who disagree with Weather study

Mild Electrical Pulses May Aid People with Fibromyalgia

Calgary doctor helps write guidelines for treatment of Fibromyalgia 

Could Fibromyalgia Be Labeled as a Psychiatric Illness?

Pre-op Ketamine May Lower Pain in Fibromyalgia

Vigorous Exercise Eases Fibromyalgia Symptoms: Study

CAM Exercises Aid Fibromyalgia; Meta-Analysis

Whole-body Vibration Training Improved Balance in Fibromyalgia Patients

Shiatsu Massage Shows Potential to Improve Multiple Fibromyalgia Symptoms

Dr Myhill on Fibromyalgia and Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Mitochondrial Dysfunction – A Biomarker for Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS?

Fibromyalgia Flares and Chronic Pain

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Miss Understood: Being Called a Drug Seeker

by Arlene Grau

My Emergency Room Experience (i.e.- Our Healthcare System Needs Work)

by Tracy Rydzy