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Common Painkillers Raise Heart Death Risk
June 8, 2010 -- High doses of common painkillers raise the risk of heart death in healthy people, a huge Danish study finds. It's the first evidence that so-called NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) pain relievers -- including some sold over the counter -- increase the risk of heart disease
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Expert Q&A: Video Games May Ease Pain
Three-dimensional virtual reality video games may prove to be the latest weapon in the fight against pain. In a number of pilot studies, virtual reality (VR) has been shown to reduce the anxiety and pain associated with a variety of medical procedures and conditions, says Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, assoc
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Electrical Stimulation May Ease Back Pain
May 10, 2010 (Baltimore) -- Spinal cord stimulation may help relieve chronic pain in the lower back, leg and arms, and other parts of the body, preliminary research suggests. Numerous studies support the use of spinal cord stimulation, which uses an electrical current to treat chronic pain, for the
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Sedative, Tranquilizer Poisonings on the Rise
April 6, 2010 -- More people are landing in the hospital because of poisoning from prescription tranquilizers, sedatives, and opioids, a new study finds. Hospitalizations for such poisonings increased 65% between 1999 and 2006. That’s double the increase in hospitalizations for poisoning by other dr
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Words Really Do Hurt
April 2, 2010 -- Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt you too, according to new research. A new study suggests merely saying, "This may hurt a bit," before receiving a shot may be enough to trigger a pain response in the brain long before any actual pain is felt. Researchers fo
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Brief Meditation Training Brings Pain Relief
March 17, 2010 -- Meditation increases pain tolerance, but you don't have to devote your life to the practice to derive benefits, new research shows. Even very brief training in mindfulness meditation had a positive impact on pain perception in the study, conducted by researchers from the University
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Patients Happy With Knee Replacement
March 12, 2010 -- As they reach their 60s and beyond, baby boomers are increasingly opting for surgery to replace their worn-out knees. More than half a million total knee replacement procedures are performed annually in the U.S., and this number is projected to climb to around 3 million per year ov
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Medical Marijuana Has Merit, Research Shows
Feb. 18, 2010 -- Marijuana can be a promising treatment for some specific, pain-related medical conditions, according to California researchers who presented an update of their findings Wednesday to the California Legislature and also released them to the public. ''I think the evidence is getting be
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Prescribed Opioids: Overdoses Not Uncommon
Jan. 19, 2010 -- Overdoses and drug-related deaths are not uncommon among people taking opioid drugs that have been prescribed by a doctor for chronic pain, a new government-funded study finds. The finding suggests an urgent need to more closely monitor patients who are prescribed drugs like OxyCont
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Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, St. Joseph Aspirin, Rolaids Recall
Jan. 15, 2010 -- Because of a sickening smell in some containers, 54 million packages of 27 different over-the-counter remedies now are being recalled. Products include various types of child and/or adult Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl, St. Joseph Aspirin, Rolaids, and Simply Sleep. This adds to the 6 mi
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