Recall of Accusure Insulin Syringes
For those that use syringes please look and see if this recall effects you. Below is the notice from the company that produces the syringes.
Qualitest Pharmaceuticals and FDA notified patients and healthcare professionals of a voluntary nationwide recall of two lots of Accusure Insulin Syringes. The syringes in these lots have been found to have needles which [...]
Acupuncture found to help control chronic pain
A study at the University of Michigan has found that acupuncture can help to reduce pain and can increase the pain potential of opioids. Patients that were diagnosed with fibramyalgia were asked to keep taking their existing pain killers over a two month period of time. Then PET scans were taken at the beginning before [...]
Join new study on CRPS
For those with chronic pain and have a diagnosis of either CRPS Type I or II there is a study you can join. A PhD. Candidate from the University off Iowa is conducting research on the reduction of quality of life from CRPS. The study is being underwritten by the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association which [...]
FDA takes away powerful pain killer
In a move that has baffled pain management doctors, the FDA has decided to restrict distribution of a newly approved pain killer. The drug called Onsolis is a short acting but powerful fentanyl pain killer. The drug was originally to be used for acute pain management and end of life pain control.
UK patients live in agony so government saves money
While the United States decides whether to allow the government to control medical care, we see yet another potential disaster come from the UK. The drug rationing watchdog has arbitrarily forced doctors to stop giving patients steroids to stop pain in patients where their pain cause is unknown. Drugs such as cortisone have been widely [...]
Breakthrough in spinal cord reconstruction
Researchers at the University of California @ San Diego have discovered a chemical that can rewire the spinal cord after injury. With over 40,000 victims of neck and spinal damage in the United States, this work could dramatically change their lives. The research work done at San Diego has found a way to regenerate synapses [...]
Georgia Hospitals Ignored ADA
For years the disabled have found that the hospitals in and around Atlanta have not been helpful to the disabled. They will not get you a waffle bed while you are in emergency or even after you are admitted. While in emergency they will not give you medication that you need to live.
Hospital staff hands out hepatitis C to patients
When one enters the hospital you expect to be safe. The instruments that are used on you are expected to be sterilized and needles are to be immediately thrown out. Unfortunately, that is not what has been happening for the last thirty years and the medical community is not planning on fixing the problem any [...]
FDA may ban key pain killers
The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone, Tylenol with codeine, Percocet, Endocet, Darvocet may be permanently banned from the US market, even if the patient has a prescription fro a doctor.The problem is the key ingredient [...]
Chronic pain reorganizes brain
Northwestern University has finished a study that shows brains involved with chronic pain are more likely to have depression and other cognitive declines. Cognitive and emotional functions appear to be negatively affected by chronic pain creating an atrophy in cells that are repeatedly forced to send pain comands over and over. This is the first [...]
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