Tuesday-Newsday #131

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! There are three Featured Blog Posts this week: “The Art of Letting Go – Making New Year's ‘Anti-Resolutions’," "Happy New Year: Time to think how we can make our lives the best that they can be in 2014,” and “Creating Beauty From a Life of Chronic Pain.”

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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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~* RX ALERT: VOLUNTARY DRUG RECALL *~

Lidocaine Injection Recalled in 28 States

*OBAMACARE & MEDICARE: WHAT YOU *NEED* TO KNOW

If during the holidays you missed my last post, I highly recommend that you look at Tuesday-Newsday #130 and particularly focus on the section on Obamacare - and why doctors are warning us. This is very very important to everybody, but especially for chronic pain / illness people like us. 

Here are three more stories you need to read:

Doctor warns: Stop the Medicare cuts to senior citizens and the disabled in pain

Experts: Medicare Reimbursement Cuts Potentially Devastating to Pain Doctors & Patients

Walgreens Offers Month Of Prescriptions To Backlogged Obamacare Enrollees
“(The company says) it will provide a month's supply of certain prescriptions at no upfront cost to (patients) who have not yet received a plan identification number... (They want) to make sure customers had no interruption in their prescriptions.”

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

7 Health Predictions for 2014

Avera to start matching pain killers with genetics

PET scans and saxitoxin allow researchers to 'see' pain

Scientists use synchrotron to develop novel Ibuprofen delivery methods for bones

Australian scorpion venom could be the next painkiller

Using sound to manage chronic pain—study

Researchers hope to ease chronic pain after enzyme discovery

FDA Wants New Study of Suboxone Implant

Chronic pain amongst different ethnic groups: an interview

Jewelry, socks ease diabetes and arthritis pain

*INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES

AGA Recommendations for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Pain Relievers Hike Flare Risk in Crohn's

Crohn's disease study uses patients' own bone marrow cells for personalized treatment

Thalidomide May Help Kids With Crohn's Disease: Drug previously tied to birth defects helped induce remission in children with difficult-to-treat disease

Using Biologic Agents to Induce Remission for Crohn's Disease, but not Ulcerative Colitis

High fiber intake reduces Crohn's disease risk

Vedolizumab Gets High Marks for Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis, Less Effective on Crohn’s Disease

New Form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Occurs After Patients Suffer Acute Diverticulitis

Is There a Link Between IBS, Fibromyalgia, and Celiac Disease?

Manufacturing New Gut to Treat GI Diseases

*LYME DISEASE

Three die suddenly from rare Lyme disease complication

U.S. Lyme Disease Cases Vastly Underreported: CDC: Ongoing studies suggest ticks infect 300,000 people each year

*SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

Clinical Trial: Stem-cell gene therapy for sickle cell disease at UCLA

New drug could ease pain of sickle cell disease: Regadenoson 

Drug treatment means better, less costly care for children with sickle cell disease: Hydroxyurea

Flipping a gene switch reactivates fetal hemoglobin, may reverse sickle cell disease

New Insights Into Pathophysiology Of Sickle Cell Disease And Thalassemia May Help Improve Care

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

The Art of Letting Go – Making New Year's "Anti-Resolutions"

by Lisa Lorden Myers

Happy New Year: Time to think how we can make our lives the best that they can be in 2014

by Jan Sadler of Pain Support UK

Creating Beauty From a Life of Chronic Pain
by Sue Falkner-Wood