Tuesday-Newsday #128

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Giving Thanks” and “Steve McQueen and the Missing ‘P’.”

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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December 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities

*MEDICATION NEWS

Opioid over-regulation can leave cancer patients worldwide in intolerable pain

'I Just Want To Manage My Life': Painkiller Law in WA State Leaves Some Patients Behind

Biopuncture to manage chronic pain

Obama signs bill regulating compounding pharmacies 

FDA Starts Regulating Compounding Pharmacies: New powers designed to make specialty drugs safer for patients

Salt in medicines 'poses a health risk'

Microneedles on a skin patch may be the painless and safe way doctors will test for drugs and some infections in the future

*PATIENT NEWS

Demand for doctors will grow as population in US ages

Feds give health centers $150 million to treat 1.25 million new patients

Instead of the ER: Paramedics making house calls to chronic patients 

Depression 'second leading cause of disability worldwide'

Novel vital signs monitoring device gets $10.5m funding

What's up, Doc? How comic strips are improving bedside manner

Medical detection dogs: how they could save our lives in a sniff

Your Knee Bone’s Connected to Your…What? Scientists Discover New Body Part

*CANCER PAIN

Dog food additive may reduce pain in cancer patients 

Marijuana Helps Reduce Cancer Pain

Cancer Radiation Treatment For Pain Questioned

Pain: Cancer patients find healing through art

Music eases pain of kids with cancer

Strike a yoga pose: How the downward dog can beat the pain of cancer

Acupuncture Reduces Pain in Lung Cancer Patients - New Findings

Acupuncture For Pancreatic Cancer Pain - New Research

Acupuncture Could Ease Joint Pain From Breast Cancer Treatment

Study: CBD Reduces Pain, Slows Breast Cancer

Postmastectomy Pain Most Troubling Problem for Breast Cancer Survivors

When Pain Lingers After Breast Cancer Treatment

Depomed Announces the Launch of Lazanda® (fentanyl) Nasal Spray and the Signature Support™ Program for Patients with Breakthrough Cancer Pain

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Miss Understood: Giving Thanks

by Arlene Alonzo Grau

Living with Pain: Steve McQueen and the Missing ‘P’

by Mark Maginn