Tuesday-Newsday #163

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Why catastrophizing sucks. PLUS: A challenge (for you and me both!)”, “What It’s Like to Take a Vacation While Chronically Ill” and “Self-compassion: NOT some psychobabble feel goody thing.”

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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Invisible Illness Awareness Week is this week

September is Pain Awareness Month

*MEDICATION NEWS

Saturday, Sept. 27 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

DEA to Allow Hospitals & Pharmacies to Collect Unwanted Meds

Purdue Pharma presents efficacy, abuse deterrent potential of pain medication Hysingla ER

Pain Experts Predict Problems with Hydrocodone Rescheduling

No Overdoses or Diversion Caused by Zohydro

Opioid Prescription Should Include Risk Assessment

Methadone Treatment Reduces Sex Hormone in Men Only

Stress Might Influence Development of Chronic Pain

Non-invasive delivery of drugs for effective pain relief

Public Citizen expert slams aspects of FDA draft drug labeling guidance

Using computers to design drugs

Lack of access to pain relief for millions of dying patients is a world public health emergency

Deciphering Drug Labels Not Always Easy

Doctors and Patients Communicate Poorly about Constipation

opinion: The Hippocratic Oath or Hypocrisy

opinion: Why I Need Hydrocodone

opinion: Patients deserve the best treatment for chronic pain, doctor says

*UPDATE ON MENINGITIS OUTBREAK FROM CONTAMINATED Rx

Massachusetts Pharmacist Arrested in Deadly Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

Pharmacist's arrest cheers meningitis patients

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS 

8th Annual National P.A.I.N. Summit 2014 with Montel Williams

Rules for Vicodin pain medication changing October 6th, 2014

Education, Patient-Focused Approach to Treating Chronic Pain Are Keys to Preventing Opioid Abuse, Say Experts, Patients

People with widespread pain more likely to develop insomnia

Researchers unlock new mechanism in pain management

Can Power of the Mind Control Chronic Pain? Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE)

Altered Pain Perception May Underlie Some Dry Eye Disease

Promoting Mind-Body Approaches to Pain Self-Management

Flotation therapy: Spending time in a dark tank of warm salt water might sound a bit wacky, but converts say there are plenty of mental and physical benefits

10 Things to Know About Neuromodulation: Minimally Invasive Procedures to Reduce or Alleviate Pain

Massage Therapy Decreases Inflammation and Pain

9 Surprising Health Benefits of Massage

*OSTEOARTHRITIS

Artificial Hips Blamed for Poisoning Patients

Arthritis patients are taking too many painkillers - raising their risk of internal bleeding, heart attack and stroke, U.K. report finds

Struggling to move: Delving into the pain of osteoarthritis

Not all Osteoarthritis Patients Reported Pain; Women reported more pain than men, Pain was greater in those who were older

Research shows how breastfeeding can help ease the pain of arthritis

Osteoarthritis patients 'willing to accept treatment-associated risks'

Complementary & Alternative Medicines (CAM) use widespread in OA

Is Bee Sting Therapy Buzzing Into The Mainstream? Clinical Trials Underway For Chronic Pain

Protection from osteoarthritis may lie in our own joints, study suggests

Study: Overweight osteoarthritis patients have more pain

Obesity alone does not cause arthritis in animal study; What does this mean for people?

Humira No Help for Arthritic Hands

Inadequate pain relief common in knee osteoarthritis

Adding grapes to diet resulted in less activity-related pain in knee osteoarthritis

Knee pain when using stairs early clue to OA

Arthritis Knee Pain Eased by the traditional Chinese medicine practice of Moxibustion

Walking and Dancing Help Relieve Knee Pain

Pain in knee osteoarthritis differs by ethnicity

New treatment for knee pain: AposTherapy

Laser therapy for knee pain, treating KOA

Study: One Third of Knee Replacement Surgeries ‘Inappropriate’

Knee surgery not needed for mild osteoarthritis, experts say

Study: Partial Knee Replacement Safer

Sprifermin offers benefit for cartilage loss from knee osteoarthritis

From Botox to 'grow your own' cartilage - how to ease your bad knees

Wrecked knees? Nose cartilage can fix them

Physical therapy for hip osteoarthritis does not appear to provide greater improvement for pain or function

The role of stem cells in osteoarthritis treatment

A new cause of osteoarthritis identified by research on a rare disease

First biomarkers found to predict severe osteoarthritis

*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.

AWAP: Why catastrophizing sucks. PLUS: A challenge (for you and me both!)

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe

What It’s Like to Take a Vacation While Chronically Ill

by Toni Bernhard

Self-compassion: NOT some psychobabble feel goody thing

by Dr. Laurie at Creaky Joints