Tuesday-Newsday #165

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “How Do I Handle Unwanted Advice?”, “My body & My best  friend” and “How To Be There For Someone.”

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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*MEDICATION NEWS

This Saturday is 'National Prescription Drug Take Back Day'

Rapid Price Increases for Some Generic Drugs Catch Users by Surprise

New Data Shows ZohydroER Reduced Pain and Improved Function in People With Chronic Pain

Is Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia a Real Phenomenon?

For Chronic Pain Patients Unrelieved by High-Dose Opioids, What Next?

Survey of Chronic Pain Patients On Current Access to Opioids: 18% of patients were unable to fill prescriptions by pharmacists on at least one occasion

Is Your Opiate or Antidepressant Medication Causing or Increasing Incontinence?

Marijuana Rated Most Effective Alternative Treatment for Pain, According to Study of Female Pain Patients

Ex-cops screening patients at pain pill clinics in West Virginia, and charging patients for it

FDA Approves Movantik/Naloxegol Tablets C-II for the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Adult Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain

Consumer Reports: Is Acetaminophen a deadly pain pill?

opinion: The Forgotten Patients: Those Who Benefit From Opioid Treatment

opinion: Zohydro Debate - Drug Hysteria or True Concern?

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Pain Pathways Magazine

Fat mass contributes to musculoskeletal pain risk

Eye Color a Potential Cue to Pain Tolerance 

Living in disadvantaged neighborhood worsens musculoskeletal pain outcomes after trauma exposure

Modest Alcohol Consumption Is Associated With Lower Pain Prevalence and Disability Levels

Childhood Trauma and Pain: Is There a Connection?

Can Hypnosis Eliminate Pain?

Pain Coaching Helps Patients Achieve Goals

Philips aims to relieve persistent pain with smartphone-controlled devices

*OBAMACARE ISSUES

Insurance Plans May Have a Loophole for Pre-existing Conditions

Obamacare Face Hurdles Ahead Of Its Second Enrollment Season

The Obamacare 'family glitch' will deny healthcare insurance to millions

Health Insurance May Not Be Affordable for All: Study highlights gaps and unintended consequences of Obamacare

*RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

What Are Infusion Reactions and Injection Site Reactions?

FDA OKs a New Methotrexate Injection Device Rasuvo

Orencia Combo Tops in Early, Severe RA

Oral RA Drug Shows Enduring Safety Results Tofacitinib/Xeljanz

Treat-to-Target With Actemra Succeeds in RA

Combo Therapy Boosts Patient Outcomes in RA: combination of Tocilizumab (Actemra) plus Methotrexate

Marijuana Trials Leave RA Patients in Doubt

Arthritis patients failing to take expensive medication, according to new research

Shingles Risks Similar for the RA Biologics

Chinese Herb for RA Questioned

What ‘Type’ of RA Do You Have? Some researchers suggest rheumatoid arthritis may be more than a single disease

Smoking and Salt Double Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cognitive-behavioral coping skills training has positive effects on rheumatoid arthritis

Obesity in Women Linked With Early RA

People with RA Are Living Longer

Rheumatoid Arthritis and hydrotherapy

Go Ahead, Try Massage Therapy for RA Joint Pain

Vectra DA Predicts Radiographic Progression In Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

New survey explores impact of chronic fatigue on people with rheumatoid arthritis

Chronic fatigue and rheumatoid arthritis: interview with an expert from National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society

Research about pregnancy and arthritis medications

Vigilance for kidney problems key for rheumatoid arthritis patients, study finds

Cartilage actively contributes to arthritis

Potential anti-TNF response biomarker identified

Curing rheumatoid arthritis in mice

12 Tips to Minimize RA Pain and Discomfort at the Dentist

Two Proteins Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Molecular imaging gets to the root of rheumatoid arthritis

Research on inflammasomes opens new therapeutic avenues for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Blocking single receptor could halt rheumatoid arthritis

Joint Decisions: Live Web Chats to Empower People Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis

opinion: Is RA really invisible? Oops…there is it is

*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: How Do I Handle Unwanted Advice? (video)

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe.com

My body & My best friend 

by Lene Andersen at CreakyJoints

How To Be There For Someone (video)

by Kelly Patricia