Tuesday-Newsday #179

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to couples struggling with chronic pain/illness.

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

Stanford Researchers Seek Pain Patients for Online Survey

Women’s Pain: Common, Treatable and Often Overlooked or Mismanaged

Avacen 100: New Device Treats Arthritis, Fibromyalgia Pain with Heat

Chronic pain not only hurts, it also causes isolation and depression

New advances in chronic pain management show promise

Medication-Assisted Mobilization (MAM) Procedure Brings New Life for Chronic Pain Patients

Celebrities with pain conditions talk about their journeys

Managing pain with the power of the mind

Functional Medicine Battles Chronic Diseases

Survey: Compliance for Some Spinal Cord Stimulator Infection Control Practices High, Lacking for Others

opinion: How Will The Movie “Cake” Portray People Living with Pain?

*MEDICATION NEWS

Access to Opioids in Europe Called ‘Human Right’

Workers comp sector seeks to curb off-label drug use

Indian scientists design morphine replacement for pain therapy

Study identifies potential for safer anti-inflammatory drugs

Cost of bringing new drug to market now around $2.6 billion, says Tufts CSDD

As biotech booms, high drug costs cause worry

Can Ibuprofen Help You Live Longer?

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITIONS

Search for Biomarkers Aimed at Improving Treatment of Painful Bladder Condition

A better long-term treatment option for Interstitial Cystitis, thanks to animplantable device which releases lidocaine

Raising Awareness about Interstitial Cystitis

Advice and Support May Improve Painful Bladder Symptoms

British cystitis sufferer can't hold down a job or have sex after enduring excruciating condition for 11 years

Researchers are developing a noninvasive test for endometriosis

If You Suffer From Endometriosis, Better Help May Be Coming: New drug combo, other studies 

Phase-III drug Elagolix does well against endometriosis pain

Acupuncture Point Sensitivity Linked to Menstrual Pain, Endometriosis

Visceral syndrome in endometriosis

Severe Teenage Acne May Increase Endometrosis Risk

ESHRE launches endometriosis app

Ten years of agony, two operations and the prospect of never having children: Young woman's fight to get new drug used to treat her excruciating endometriosis in Australia 

Endometriosis, a painful stealth disease, attacks women under many disguises

Young teen smokers may run heightened risk of chronic severe period pain

The neuroscience of 'holding it': Involuntary link in brain between pelvic floor, other muscles

Physiotherapy specialists provide relief for pelvic floor pain

Botox injections curing chronic pelvic muscle pain in Australia

Female Triathletes at Risk for Pelvic Floor Disorders

Multidisciplinary approach benefits provoked Vestibulodynia

Statins may prevent hysterectomies in women with uterine fibroids

FDA Adds 'Boxed Warning' to Devices Used to Remove Uterine Fibroids

Woman shares story of life up-ended by chronic nerve pain: Pudendal Neuralgia

Non-Surgical Treatment for Painful Ovarian Varicose Veins

In Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Cinnamon May Help

Young women with polycystic ovary syndrome are 5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes

Nearly one in five women who undergo hysterectomy may not need the procedure

*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.

Resolving Conflicts When a Partner Is Chronically Ill

by Toni Bernhard

How a Marriage Survives When One Partner Gets Sick

by Donna Jackson Nakazawa 

Dealing with Disappointment

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