Tuesday-Newsday #154

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “3 Things the Chronically Ill Wish Their Loved Ones Knew”, “On accepting limits, drawing borders, and finding what’s ‘just right’ and “Illness, Stress and Marriage.”

Remember that even if a Featured Blog Post is written specifically with emphasis on one chronic pain condition, it may still have information and ideas which can help people with any type of chronic pain/illness. I always select posts which I think can provide help for the widest audience.

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   

Device startup raises $2M to build iPod-sized wearable that uses ultrasound for pain

Back pain sufferer died after burning his buttocks in boiling-hot bath he took in bid to ease pain of excruciating condition 

Eye Color a Potential Cue to Pain Tolerance

Judge Ruling Favors Calmare® Pain Therapy Reimbursement In Personal Injury Case Against Allstate Insurance

Gate Control Theory and Pain Management

Midnight Friends: How Wired Patients Are Transforming Chronic Illness

ReWalk Robotic Exoskeleton Suit Gets FDA Approval

FDA OKs First Device for Restless Legs Syndrome: Relaxis

*MEDICATION NEWS

Senators Claim Doctors Pressured by Medicare Survey to Prescribe Painkillers

Some questioning statistic of 100 million Americans in chronic pain 

Prescriptions for Powerful Painkillers Vary Widely Among States, CDC says

Minnesota's medical marijuana fight now turns to those in chronic pain

The Hazy Issue of Marijuana in the Workplace (for Medical Marijuana Users)

The anti-inflammatory effect of aspirin reduced in African American women

Coalition Releases Report To Promote Safe Acetaminophen Use

Researchers On A Path To Lower-Risk Painkillers

Pharmacists are Untapped Resource for Patients: what your pharmacist can do for you

Five surprising herbs that can damage your liver

*SICKLE CELL ANEMIA

Be The Match® Urges African Americans to Sign Up To Save Lives — July is African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month

For patients with sickle cell disease, blood donors are a matter of life and death

Molecular blood group typing technique developed

Researchers testing to see if medical marijuana can treat chronic pain caused by sickle cell disease

Bone Marrow Expert Sees New Hope For Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

Gaming pilot study at Children's National engages sickle cell  youth in their own care

Tackle Sickle Cell campaign, spearheaded by NFL stars & twin brothers Jason & Devin McCourty: click to campaign page HERE

Medical trials need minorities

Educate And Ask: Key To Living With Sickle Cell Disease

Houston Doctors Discover Breakthrough With Sickle Cell Disease

Biochemists Reduce Sickling, Progression of Sickle Cell Disease in Mice

World Sickle Cell Day 2014: Why Raising Awareness About This Condition Matters

FDA Salutes World Sickle Cell Awareness Day

Historic fear cripples blacks in fight against Sickle Cell disease

Sickle cell trait in African-American dialysis patients affects dosing of anemia medications

Bacterial adaptation contributes to pneumococcal threat in sickle cell disease patients

Pulmonary hypertension: First guidelines for patients with sickle cell disease

Engineered T Cells Fight Viruses After Transplants

A CRISPR Way To Fix Faulty Genes

Stem-cell advances may quell ethics debate

Stem Cells: Baby Cord Blood Is Excellent Source

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Even if a Featured Blog Post is written specifically with emphasis on one chronic pain condition, it may still have information and ideas which can help people with any type of chronic pain/illness. I always select posts which I think can provide help for the widest audience.

3 Things the Chronically Ill Wish Their Loved Ones Knew

by Toni Bernhard

On accepting limits, drawing borders, and finding what’s “just right”

by Sandi's Ow at CreakyJoints

Illness, Stress and Marriage

by Helena at Chronic Marriage: Helping Couples with Chronic Illness build extraordinary marriages