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Medical Advances and Breakthroughs
By Beth Howard From easy knee repair to scar-free surgery, read about some of the latest medical breakthroughs that could change your life. It's not every day, or even every decade, that research leads to a real medical breakthrough — the kind that revolutionizes the treatment of a disease or condit
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Photo of a Loved One Reduces Pain
Nov. 20, 2009 -- Forget aspirin and ibuprofen. A new pain reliever is decidedly less medical: a photo of a loved one. A new study shows that just looking at a picture of a loved one can help reduce pain. Holding a loved one's hand also helps reduce pain. The study included 25 women, mostly students
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Texting Can Be a Pain in the Neck, Shoulders
Nov. 12, 2009 -- Texting may be preferred over phone jabbering by many young people, but too much text messaging may increase the risk of neck or shoulder pain, a new study shows. Judith Gold, ScD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Temple University’s College of Health Professions and Social
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Brief Training in Meditation Eases Pain
Nov. 11, 2009 -- A mini-course in meditation may be all it takes to assist in pain management. A new study shows as little as an hour of mindfulness training is enough to reduce pain. "We knew already that meditation has significant effects on pain perception in long-term practitioners whose brains
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Placebo Effect May Help Treat Pain
Oct. 15, 2009 -- The "placebo effect" may help treat pain, German researchers report in Science. When someone experiences the placebo effect, they're responding to an inactive drug or sham procedure that isn't supposed to affect their condition. The placebo effect is often called psychological -- th
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CDC: Alarming Increase in Methadone Deaths
Sept. 30, 2009 -- Methadone deaths have risen sevenfold in less than a decade, according to a government report that largely blames the increase on the growing use of methadone for pain relief. Used primarily for the management of heroin addiction until the late 1990s, methadone has become one of th
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High Heels Today, Foot Pain Tomorrow
Sept. 29, 2009 -- Wearing high heels today may hurt just a little, but even bigger foot pain may be in store later on. A new study shows that people who make poor shoe choices early in life by wearing unsupportive footwear like high heels, sandals, and slippers are much more likely to suffer from fo
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Propofol Plus Sedative Killed Michael Jackson
Aug. 28, 2009 -- Acute intoxication with the anesthetic propofol, coupled with the effect of the sedative drug Ativan, killed pop star Michael Jackson on June 25, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office announced today. The manner of death has been ruled a homicide, according to the news release iss
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Propofol Linked to Michael Jackson's Death
Aug. 24, 2009 -- ''Lethal levels" of the anesthetic propofol (Diprivan) killed Michael Jackson, according to news reports, which cited information from a search warrant affidavit unsealed in Houston. The court documents said the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office reached that conclusion after an au
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Go Ahead and Curse! It May Ease Your Pain
July 13, 2009 -- It has long been a cliche: the woman in childbirth screaming curse words at her husband. Now, there's scientific research that may explain why people in pain often use offensive language. The cursing may actually lessen the perception of pain. That is the finding of a new study publ
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