Tuesday-Newsday #182

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to finding quality healthcare.

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

Chronic pain treatments may get boost from high-tech imaging: Brain scans can track protein changes to show whether therapies work

Chronic Pain Is Overwhelmingly Experienced by Women—So Why Do They Have Trouble Getting Care for It?

Chronic Joint Pain: Joints can swell when we are sleeping, preventing restful sleep in 50-90% of patients

3D Printed Bones To Increase Success of Orthopedic Surgery, Reduce Risk of Chronic Pain

A Radical Standard of Pain: Pain is political. But how?

How To Manage The Psychological Side Of Illness

Negative doctor-patient talks can worsen symptoms

Why It's Sometimes OK For Doctors To Google Their Patients (note: what do you think of this?)

Pooches, Pets, and Pain Relief

opinion: We Need More Chronic Pain Awareness

*MEDICATION NEWS

Making Epidural Injections Safer: National organizations sign off on new suggestions to improve pain treatment and prevent neurological injuries

Pot drug for cancer pain flops, other health risks make marijuana too risky to legalize

DEA has removed Naloxegol (Movantik) tablets opioid constipation from the Controlled Substances Act

opinion: Should anesthesiologists play a role in the delivery of palliative care?

*MIGRAINE / HEADACHE

American Migraine Foundation To Create National Patient Database for Research

What are the risks associated with taking migraine medications and antidepressants at the same time?

Migraine Headaches–New Study Released on Use of NSAIDs

Mitigate those Migraines: Cambia (Diclofenac Potassium) has recently been established as an effective Level A treatment

Updated assessment of medications to treat acute migraine

How 'Beckham tape' can help you beat headaches: More than 10 million of us suffer from the pain

Peripheral nerve blocks OK for migraines in pregnancy

FDA Declines Approval for Intranasal Migraine Treatment

Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is no panacea for Migraine

Difficult to Treat Chronic Migraine: Outpatient Medication Approaches

Are Migraines in Middle Age Tied to Raised Parkinson's Risk Later?

Handheld vagal nerve stimulator reduced cluster headache attacks: gammaCore

New migraine procedure called SphenoCath provides pain relief for some

Why Migraines Deserve More Attention

Migraines: A Bigger Problem Than We Think?

New study finds Migraine remains highly prevalent medical condition with women, vulnerable populations bearing disproportionate disease burden; E.R. visits common but best treatments not usually prescribed

ID Migraine Screener Useful Tool for Better Headache Diagnosis

Here's What It Means When Your Headache Is In A Specific Part Of Your Head

Headaches can be a warning sign: If bad headaches and vision problems crop up persistently for the first time over the age of 50, it could be a symptom of a serious illness

New Study Links Headaches to Bariatric Surgery

Limit Imaging Scans for Headache? Neurosurgeons Raise Concerns It Is Sometimes the Only Symptom of Brain Tumors

Migraine linked to defective 'insulation' around nerve fibers, suggests study

No Link Between Migraine, Breast Cancer Risk, Study Says

Migraine May Raise Risk for Bell's Palsy, Study Suggests

Multidisciplinary Migraine Management

Surgical Approaches to Migraine Headache

Preventative Treatment for Migraine: Overview & Approach

Migraine sufferers may find meditation helps, small study finds

Difficult to Treat Chronic Migraine: The Bipolar Spectrum and Personality Disorders

Do You Hear Voices during a Migraine Attack?

Carving Out an Identity for Vestibular Migraine

2014: The Year in Migraine

Study results: Migraine in America 2014

Study suggests worsening trends in headache management

The science of migraines

Is It Time for a New Migraine Doctor?

HeadWay newsletter, Issue #123 - Migraines & Alzheimer’s

New Website Goes Live to Provide “Everything You Need to Know" About Migraine

*PEDIATRIC MIGRAINE / HEADACHE

Prochlorperazine for migraine may lower likelihood of Emergency room return for children

FDA grants priority review for Treximet to treat migraine in adolescent patients

Pediatric Migraines: Things Every Parent Should Know

American Migraine Foundation Offers Tips for Parents on Helping Their Children Cope with Migraine

Spotlight On Migraine in Children

Migraines and Kids: How to Cope

18 Reasons to Suspect Migraine in Your Child

Six Reasons for Headaches in School-Age Children and How Parents Can Help Relieve the 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.

Ten Techniques to Help Improve the Relationship With Your Doctor

for Pain Pathways magazine

Signs It’s Time to Change Doctors And How to Find a Physician You’ll Love

by Dorothy Foltz-Gray for Lifescript

The Year Of The Patient: 10 tips for safer, higher quality healthcare

by Martine Ehrenclou

How to Become a Fibromyalgia Truth Sleuth

by Sue Ingebretson for ProHealth