Tuesday-Newsday #156

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Raising kids who can talk with their doctors”, “7 ways chronic illness imposes an extra burden on the young” and “The best thing a doctor ever did to me.”

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   

IOM Defends Pain Report

Natural-born painkiller found in human saliva

Telecare intervention improves chronic pain

New research: Teaching the brain to reduce pain

Discovery of new means to erase pain

Millions of informal caregivers at risk for chronic pain, injury trying to help disabled family members

How to Talk About Pain

Best Hospitals 2014-15: U.S. News & World Report has published its annual rankings

*MEDICATION NEWS

Naproxen Raises Risk of Heart Problems in Older Women

If color or shape changes, patients more likely to stop taking much-needed drugs

DEA Tosses Tramadol in Class IV

Customized creams relieve chronic pain

(Note from me: I’ve been using a compounded pain cream & sometimes it really does help me)

Managing Pain: Are You Reading Your Medicine Labels?

New film on the hunt for drugs to treat chronic pain - a detective story

Update on Tamper-Proof Hydrocodone Products

Many Anesthesiologists Fail to Wash Hands, Study Shows

*PEDIATRIC CHRONIC PAIN

Spoon Measurements Behind Many Child Drug-Dosing Errors: Study

‘It’s Not If DCF Is Going to Be Called…It’s When’: How Cases Like Justina Pelletier’s Have Parents With Children Who Have Unusual Conditions Afraid

Acupuncture helps young patients manage pain and nausea

Intensive Pain Rehab Improves Kids' Mental Health

Chronic pain: Children face extra challenges

Technology improves transition into adulthood for adolescents with chronic disease

Pediatric patients with specific gene variants may require higher doses of pain-control drugs

The Effects of Mindful Attention and State Mindfulness on Acute Experimental Pain Among Adolescents

Pediatric Pain: Youth athletics may lead to adult chronic pain

Popular film about teens with cancer aims to impart positive message

Increased Palliative Care Needed for Pediatric Oncology Patients

Young adults' privacy potentially jeopardized by insurance plans under Obamacare

U.S. News Ranks Best Children's Hospitals 2014-15

First clinical trial of the effects of therapy dogs on young cancer patients and their families

Blood Thinners May Not Be Needed for Kids' Back Surgery

Cutting Sugar May Ease IBS in Kids

Infant Colic May Be Early Migraine

*MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Extended-Release Ampyra Aids Walking in MS

MS symptoms improved in combined therapy trial of Estriol and Copaxone

New analyses confirm efficacy of Gilenya® (fingolimod) across four key measures of Multiple Sclerosis

New Life for Old Injectable MS Drug Interferon Beta

Tysabri Protects Against Relapse in Multiple Sclerosis, According To Study

Medical marijuana may ease some MS; Little evidence for other complementary or alternative therapies

Orphan Drug Designation Granted to IkT-001Pro (Imatinib) Treatment for Rare Multiple Sclerosis Drug Complication

New target: UCSF researchers eye common cold drug Tavist to beat back multiple sclerosis

Strategies for Selecting the Most Effective Treatment for Pain in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Pain Intensity Contributes to Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

Some MS Patients Resist Physical Activity Boost

Unique Solutions for MS Gait Problem

Cleveland Clinic Turns iPad Into Powerful Multiple Sclerosis Assessment Tool

Low-fat diet helps fatigue in people with MS, study shows

Does Bee Sting Therapy Help Ease MS Symptoms?

Multiple sclerosis discovery may explain gender gap

'Treating the MRI' in Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Launches First MS Online Radio Station

After The Fall, A Young Man Chronicles His Life With Multiple Sclerosis

Music Professor With MS Featured In PBS Documentary About the Disease

How multiple sclerosis is described and understood - redefined by international

Innovative research tool pinpoints potential therapies for multiple sclerosis

Powerful neuroimaging tools help UNM team advance multiple sclerosis research

Embryonic stem cells offer new treatment for multiple sclerosis

Human Stem Cells Reverse Multiple Sclerosis in Mice

Cell-Targeted Therapy Shows Early Promise Against MS: Patients with relapsing-remitting form of the disease showed fewer brain lesions with Ofatumumab

*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.

Raising kids who can talk with their doctors

by Sherry Reisner

7 ways chronic illness imposes an extra burden on the young

by Toni Bernhard

The best thing a doctor ever did to me

by Duncan Cross