Tuesday-Newsday #168

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Lost in a Maze”, “Be Your Own Advocate” and “The Power of Advocacy: Can YOU Make a Difference?”

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

Adolescent Chronic Pain Costs $19.5 Billion a Year in the United States

Chronic Pain Sufferers Turning To Eastern Medicine For Relief

Physical and Social Activities Affect Onset of Insomnia and Pain

First Comprehensive Neurostimulation Guidance Unveiled

Miniature wireless device being developed by Stanford Bio-X team creates better way of studying chronic pain

Anxiety Release Mobile App May Help Control Chronic Pain

New technology extreme cold to treat chronic pain: Cryotherapy

Acupuncture May Not Help Chronic Knee Pain, Study Finds

The Importance of the Healing Power of Art

The Healing Power of Art: Can Hospital Collections Help?

Coping with chronic illness and depression

Ayurvedic medicine: History, basics, treatments and caveats

The Perfect Fit: Seven Steps to Finding a Doctor Who is Right for You

*MEDICATION NEWS

Study calls lack of data on widely used opioid painkillers 'shocking'

New test could revolutionise the discovery of new prescription drugs

Insured? You Still May Pay High Prescription Costs

*INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBD)

Needle Coated Capsules May Soon Replace Injections For IBD Medication Delivery

Possible Medical Marijuana Use for Digestive Disorders?

Restarting Infliximab for IBD after a drug holiday

Prevalence of Chronic Narcotic Use Among Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The effectiveness of inflammatory bowel disease therapy could be prolonged by proactive monitoring

Ontario has one of the highest rates of IBD in the world

Growing up on livestock farm halves risk of inflammatory bowel diseases

Pain treatments less effective for those with irritable bowel

New Guidelines Issued for IBS, Chronic Constipation 

Why pain relief drugs don't work for IBS

Adolescents with IBS have lower pain sensitivity (hyperalgesia), but normal pain tolerance

Link between depression, abnormal brain response to visceral pain in patients with IBS

Acupuncture Helps Crohn’s Disease Patients

New tool to help GIs evaluate and treat Crohn's disease

CATS Trial offers new hope for severe Crohn’s disease

FDA Approves Humira for the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease in Children

Epigenetic changes in children with Crohn's disease seen in study

23andMe Announces Agreement with Pfizer to Research Genetics of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease

Further Data Support Safety, Efficacy of Entyvio for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s

Final Approval of Uceris Rectal Foam for Ulcerative Colitis Granted by FDA

Genetic factors involved in pediatric ulcerative colitis discovered

*LYME DISEASE

New Lyme disease guidelines welcomed by sufferers of chronic Lyme disease

‘Chronic Lyme Disease’ Debate Reaches US Capitol

Controversy: Infectious disease specialists agree that “chronic Lyme disease” does not exist; some patients and doctors strongly disagree

Lyme Patients Infiltrate IDWeek Medical Conference, Call on IDSA Members for Help

A big dispute behind a tiny tick bite: What to call the lingering effects of Lyme disease?

Pennsylvania governor signs law to create Lyme disease task force, focuses on prevention

Two-Tiered Lab Testing for Lyme Disease—No Better Than a Coin Toss. Time for change?

opinion: When family members don’t believe you have Lyme

*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.

Lost in a Maze 

by Jan Sadler of PainSupportUK

Be Your Own Advocate

by Kelly Patricia 

The Power of Advocacy: Can YOU Make a Difference?

by Carol Harper for PainPathways magazine