Tuesday-Newsday #171

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to Chronic Pain/illness and Relationships.

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

FDA Hearing Yields Little Consensus on Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

Hydrocodone Rescheduling Becomes Official

Gabapentin Benefit May Be Limited in Palliative Care

FDA Approves Relistor for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

8th Annual National P.A.I.N. Summit 2014 on Nov 14th with Keynote Speaker Montel Williams

... And after the P.A.I.N. Summit, don't miss the 8th annual event: COMIC PAIN RELIEF featuring hypnotist Tom DeLuca

NERVEmber is International Nerve Pain Awareness Month: Paint The World Orange

The Numbers Game II: How Many Americans Have Chronic Pain?

Race Matters as a Factor in Pain Management, but Why?

Smokers with new back pain less likely to recover, likely to develop chronic pain

Spinal Cord Stimulation: Pain Relief Goes High Tech

Pain Quiz—Neuromodulation

New technology shows nurses where your veins are

*PATIENT NEWS

Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records

Feds Probe Medical Devices for Possible Cyber Flaws

Doctors, Patients Embrace Technology in Medicine

Nine real technologies that will soon be inside you 

E-Doctors: Virtual Visits Give Patients Options

A new way to “crowdfund” your medical bills

Less Competition Among Docs = Higher Medical Costs, Study Says

*CANCER PAIN

Fears of addiction keep cancer patients from getting pain relief

Cancer pain: opioids set to dominate - But much work is being done to improve the delivery systems of these drugs

Scrambling away pain for cancer patients

Music therapy benefits breast-cancer patients

Collaborative project designed to improve pain management among cancer sufferers

Anesthetic During Breast-Removal Surgery May Reduce Long-Term Pain

By Reducing Pain, Topical Lidocaine Improves Sexual Function

Electroacupuncture Helps Breast Cancer Patients

Chronic Pain from Breast Cancer

Common Anesthetic Can Reduce Chronic Pain After Mastectomy

Breast cancer victims ‘left in needless pain’: Terminally ill failed by British healthcare system  

Pain Intensity Can Predict Head and Neck Cancer Survival

Colon Cancer Survivors More Likely To Suffer From Abdomen And Back Pain

*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.

Chronic Pain and Relationships

from Chronic Body Pain

Improving Relationships and Building Support

by Bruce Campbell of CFIDS & Fibromyalgia Self-Help

Talking To Your Spouse About Your Illness: How Much is Too Much?

by Lisa Copen of Rest Ministries

Chronic Marriage: Learning to Redirect Your Anger 

by Helena of Chronic Marriage: Helping couples with chronic illness build extraordinary marriages