Tuesday-Newsday #194

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to going to college when you have 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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*MEDICATION NEWS

Tramadol ER Visits Soar as Prescriptions Rise

Study Links Painkillers to Homicides

National Pain Strategy Public Comment Closed – Robust Response Reported

FDA Releases Final Guidance for Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

The Prescription Drug Abuse Caucus: What Does It Mean to Chronic Pain Sufferers?

Is Senate Prescription Drug Caucus the Wrong Prescription?

One Pain Doctor’s Opinion of 6 Ways to End the Opioids Crisis

A New Voice for Chronic Pain, and Her Thoughts on the National Pain Strategy

Patients sound off on how urine drug tests are unreliable or misinterpreted by doctors 

Georgia and Tennessee both approve bills allowing Biosimilar medicines

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Insomniacs May Be More Sensitive to Pain

Fibromyalgia Research Finds It’s Worse than Chronic Pain Alone, but Exercise Helps

Cognitively Impaired Individuals Perceive Pain Differently

A better understanding of links between pain and anxiety reveals treatment opportunities

Neurocognitive Tests Potential Tool for Understanding Impairments in Chronic Pain Patients

NFMCPA Advocate Voice spring edition (breaking news on chronic pain & fibromyalgia)

*PEDIATRIC PAIN

Babies May Be More Sensitive to Pain Than Adults

Children with serious medical diagnoses or chronic pain can suffer from "Medical PTSD"

Coordinated Care Through 'Medical Home' Best for Chronically Ill Kids: Study

Acupuncture Eases Pain For Children

Listening to music or audio books significantly eases kids’ pain from surgery

Hospital uses certified music therapists to interactively address the physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs of pediatric patients

Meet MEDi, the Robot Taking Pain Out of Kids' Hospital Visits

New method for measuring pediatric pain uses software to read kids' facial expressions

Child life specialists help chronically ill kids in the hospital to deal with pain, coping, and much more

Children’s Use of Complementary Health Approaches

Parents of mentally ill children grapple with chronic pain & grief

Global Initiative To Address Pain in Children

Pediatric Pain Management

Why does children’s pain get short shrift?

Psychological Predictors Can Identify Children at Risk for Higher Pain Intensity After Surgery

WebTIPS helps ease pain & anxiety for children undergoing surgery -- and for their parents, too

Parents Play Role in Child's Postop Pain

Telehealth visits allow UCSF pediatric pain patients to continue care from home 

Innovative kids' pain clinic opens in Twin Cities

CHEO gets funding to help children with chronic pain 

Helping children push past the pain at Boston Children’s Hospital

BMC engages pediatrics, psychiatry, family and integrative medicine for children with chronic pain

Sleep researchers warn doctors and parents NOT to give Melatonin to children

Teen with painful condition proposes legislation for service dogs to be covered by insurance

Children & Chronic Illness: Info and Resources

Website for Teens with Chronic Illness

7 Things I Want Teens Diagnosed With a Chronic Illness to Know

Surviving the rabbit hole when your child lives with a chronic pain condition

That Space Between Us (How a parent can bridge the emotional distance to a child in pain)

*JUVENILE ARTHRITIS (JRA / SJIA)

Juvenile Arthritis National Conference July 23 - 26

2015 JA Conference: Scholarships

Juvenile Arthritis Camps All Around the Country

Enbrel Carries Higher Infection Risk in JIA

Safety Holds Up for Anti-TNF in JIA

Most Kids Feel Mild Pain From Subcutaneous Methotrexate

Pattern of Drug Treatment Withdrawal Affects Flare

Adverse Events Common With Biologics

Liquid Naproxen for JA returns to market in Canada

Antibiotic use in children linked to JIA

JIA Patients May Be Undertreated

Flares Likely in Arthritic Kids After Quiescence

Discover an app to help children cope with JA pain

Hip replacement an excellent option for young JA patients

Questions on JIA Treatment (scroll halfway down the page)

JIA health status worsens in adulthood

The Disease Affecting 300,000 Kids in the United States That You Don't Know About

*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.

10 Tips For College Students With Disabilities

by Kathleen Masterson

Chronic Illness & Going to College

by Emily Bradley of Chronic Curve

Don't let chronic fatigue stop you going to university
by Rhiannon Starr

 

Colleges Could Do More for Students With Chronic Ills
by Amy Norton for Health Day