Tuesday-Newsday #198

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! This week our focus is on MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS and FOOT PAIN. The Featured Blog Posts relate to positive changes that living with chronic pain/illness has created in the writers.

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

Evidence Supports Medical Marijuana for Some Painful Conditions, But Not For Many Others

Labels on Edible Medical Marijuana Products Often Misleading: Study

Marijuana For Chronic Pain: More Supply Needed?

Cymbalta and Lyrica in Legal Battles

Results of 2 Surveys Show Chronic Pain Patients' Feelings Range from Uneasy to Alarmed About Current Rx Environment

PainMatters.com Launched to Support Responsible Pain Management

Reversing the deadly side effects of Tylenol overdose: Model could help counteract poisoning from popular painkiller

Probuphine Implant Could Be ‘Game Changer’ in Pain Treatment

Public Rarely Knows Full Reason FDA Rejects New Drugs

Many Hospital Patients Not Asked About Supplements: This raises risk of harmful drug interactions

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Chronic Pain Patient Records – Are They Accurate?

Research Finds Males and Females Process Chronic Pain Differently

Resources for Pain Patients: Where Can I Get Help?

The Community Pain Center Launches "100K Against Chronic Pain" Campaign

Doctors developing and testing a smartphone app they hope will help patients and their doctors better manage chronic pain

Hospital pharmacists launch new approach to pain management

Does Prism Adaptation Hold Promise for Pain Patients?

*MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Prices of Multiple Sclerosis Rx Soaring Even for Older Drugs, in Some Cases Rising More Than 700%

Can’t Afford Your MS Prescriptions? Here’s How to Get Help

FDA approves Glatopa, the first generic version of Copaxone

Glatopa will be on pharmacy shelves soon

The MS-Smart trial will test three drugs used in other conditions: Amiloride, Fluoxetine, and Riluzole

Gilenya May Be Best in MS Patients Failing Initial Tx

Gilenya Found to Have Long-Term Positive Effects on Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

Is Stopping DMTs Feasible in Multiple Sclerosis?

New Drug Shows Promise for MS: Early results indicate treatment can repair nerve damage

Extending Natalizumab up to 8 weeks shown safe and effective in patients with MS

Oral MS Drugs: Taking a pill may be easier than self-injecting, but patient compliance is still an issue

Positive Top-Line Results for MS Drug Ocrelizumab in Two Phase III Clinical Trials

Most MS Survey Respondents Favor Legal Marijuana Access For Medical Use

MS Comorbidities May Influence Pain

Holistic assessment needed for wheelchair users with multiple sclerosis because of pain issues

Anxiety Could Independently Predict Pain in MS Patients

Co-existing MS and FM Influences Pain Threshold, According to New Study

Trigeminal Neuralgia and Multiple Sclerosis

Massage for MS

Ballroom dancing may improve function in multiple sclerosis patients

FDA Taps Online Patient Database To Gain Access To Patient-Reported MS Health Data

MS Patients See Less Disability With Biotin Treatment

Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Lower Levels of Key Nutrients in Women

Could Coffee Lower Risk of Multiple Sclerosis?

Study examines physician-industry conflict of interest issue from MS patient perspective

Multiple sclerosis: Becoming aware of its invisible difficulties

My MS Manager App to Help People with MS Better Manage Their Disease

The Spanish app to help MS sufferers

Case Study Explores Hypnosis as Potential Treatment For Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

Jack Osbourne and Teva Launch New Educational Multiple Sclerosis Website

How to S.E.A.R.C.H. for the right MS therapy for you, from the MS Association

Can a Video Game Improve MS Treatment?

Cooling Vests Help Individuals Living with MS Beat the Heat

An 80-Proof Antidote for MS Disability? Patients consuming more of the hard stuff had lower EDSS scores.

Researchers Study Device to Improve Balance for MS Patients

Scientists ID cause of movement, balance problems in MS

Association Of British Neurologists Releases New Guidelines For Multiple Sclerosis

One in four MS patients are misdiagnosed with a trapped nerve - while others are told they've had a stroke, charity warns

Gender Differences In MS Development Explored

Strong genetic risk factor for MS discovered in family of five affected siblings

opinion: Dealing with my MS pain

MS Counterpane: A New Site to Meet Multiple Sclerosis Where You Are

Biogen and SELF Join Together to Help Women With Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis Re-imagine Daily Life

Montel Williams: Update

Celebrities with MS: How Famous Father and Son Find Hope

*FOOT PAIN

Customizable female footware based on smart materials could prevent some of the most common foot problems

Foot woes will prevent some from wearing sandals, flip flops this summer

10 reasons you should never, ever wear flip-flops

Agonising pain, broken bones and even spinal damage...Forget killer heels. It's flats that really leave your feet in agony

New hydrotherapy Aquaroll offers alternative option for treating ailments in feet, joints, and more

The Ultrasound Treatment That May Help People With Chronic Plantar Fasciitis

Clinical trial tests two physical therapies for plantar fasciitis

Up to 65 percent of patients with chronic plantar fasciitis may benefit from shock wave therapy

Plantar fasciitis stubborn to heal, experts say don't put off treatment

Plantar Fasciitis or Something Else? What to Consider When That Heel Pain Doesn't Improve

Acupuncture Relieves Heel Pain & Plantar Fasciitis

Lou THE HULK Ferrigno and Plantar Faciitis - Fighting Pain & Staying Strong

Don't ignore foot problems in children, doctor says

*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.

Five Good Ways Illness Changed Me

by Jessica Gimeno at Fashionably Ill

Reasons I’m Glad To Be Sick

by Retha of Chronically 20 Something

Mental Adjustments, Part 1: Reframing
by Bruce Campbell of CFIDS and Fibromyalgia Self-Help