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Depression and trait-anxiety mediate the influence of clinical pain on health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia.

Feb 25, 2020

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain condition associated with a substantial decrease in health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study investigated the relationships of HRQoL with clinic...

A Multi-Centered Case Series Highlighting the Clinical Use and Dosing of Lidocaine and Mexiletine for Refractory Cancer Pain.

Feb 25, 2020

Lidocaine infusion for pain control has been used for years. While some centers transition from continuous infusion lidocaine to oral mexiletine, there are no published studies to guide this conversio...

Law, Culture, and Fear: A Qualitative Study of Health Professionals' Perceptions of Narcotic Use Related to Cancer Pain.

Feb 25, 2020

Studies have shown barriers to appropriate narcotic use in the Middle East have negatively impacted patient outcomes. This study aimed to explore health professionals' perspectives regarding opioid us...

Prenatal Substance Use Disorders and Dental Caries in Children.

Feb 25, 2020

Substance use is common in women of reproductive age, but limited data exist on the dental health of their children, including risk of caries. We conducted a longitudinal cohort study of 790,758 infan...

Synthesis, biochemical, pharmacological characterization and in silico profile modelling of highly potent opioid orvinol and thevinol derivatives.

Feb 25, 2020

Morphine and its derivatives play inevitably important role in the μ-opioid receptor (MOR) targeted antinociception. A structure-activity relationship study is presented for novel and known orvinol a...

microRNA-422a Inhibits DCC Expression in a Manner Dependent on SNP rs12607853.

Feb 25, 2020

DCC netrin 1 receptor (DCC) affects the structure and function of the dopamine circuitry, which in turn affects the susceptibility to developing addiction. In a previous study, we found that single nu...

nVNS for Vestibular Migraine

Feb 24, 2020

Although data indicate that vestibular migraine (VM) is the most common neurologic cause of vertigo in adults, no FDA-approved agents exist for its treatment. With few studies having pursued rescue tr...

The impact of an enhanced recovery after minimally invasive surgery program on opioid use in gynecologic oncology patients undergoing hysterectomy.

Feb 17, 2020

To evaluate the effects of an enhanced recovery after minimally invasive surgery (MIS-ERAS) protocol on opioid requirements and post-operative pain in patients undergoing minimally invasive hysterecto...

Modeling Combination HCV Treatment and Prevention Strategies in a Network of People Who Inject Drugs in the USA.

Feb 17, 2020

HCV treatment as prevention (TasP) strategies can contribute to HCV micro-elimination, yet complimentary interventions like opioid agonist therapies (OAT) and syringe services programs (SSP) may impro...

Safety aspects of opioid-naïve patients with high-grade glioma treated with D,L-Methadone: an observational case series.

Feb 17, 2020

It was suggested that D, L-Methadone might improve the clinical course of glioma patients. Owing to massive press coverage, patients demand the prescription of D, L-Methadone, but regarding its adjunc...

Migraine, low-dose combined hormonal contraceptives, and ischemic stroke in young women: a systematic review and suggestions for future research.

Feb 17, 2020

. Migraine and combined hormonal contraceptives (CHCs) increase the risk of ischemic stroke in young women; however, the contribution of low-dose (...

Prospective Double-Blinded Randomized Field-Based Clinical Trial of Metoclopramide and Ibuprofen for the Treatment of High Altitude Headache and Acute Mountain Sickness.

Feb 17, 2020

High altitude headache (HAH) and acute mountain sickness (AMS) are common pathologies at high altitudes. There are similarities between AMS and migraine headaches, with nausea being a common symptom. ...

Fluctuations in local and widespread mechanical sensitivity throughout the migraine cycle: a prospective longitudinal study.

Feb 17, 2020

People with migraine have localised (i.e., cephalic) mechanical sensitivity. There is uncertainty regarding widespread (i.e., extra-cephalic) mechanical sensitivity and variations in mechanical sensit...

Analysis of the management and costs of headache disorders in Spain during the period 2011-2016: a retrospective multicentre observational study.

Feb 17, 2020

To investigate the number and characteristics of the Spanish population affected by headache disorders and the direct medical cost that these patients represent for the healthcare system.A retrospecti...

Targeting BK Channels in Migraine: Rationale and Perspectives.

Feb 17, 2020

Large (big)-conductance calcium-activated potassium (BK) channels are expressed in migraine-related structures such as the cranial arteries, trigeminal ganglion and trigeminal spinal nucleus, and they...

T Cell Subpopulations in the Physiopathology of Fibromyalgia: Evidence and Perspectives.

Feb 17, 2020

Fibromyalgia is one of the most important "rheumatic" disorders, after osteoarthritis. The etiology of the disease is still not clear. At the moment, the most defined pathological mechanism is the alt...

Tobacco use, immunosuppressive, chronic pain, and psychiatric conditions are prevalent in women with symptomatic mesh complications undergoing mesh removal surgery.

Feb 17, 2020

To identify demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with symptomatic pelvic floor mesh complications who underwent mesh removal at our academic medical center. The secondary goal was to d...

Chronic pain, somatic unexplained complaints and multimorbidity: A mutimorbidity painful syndrome?

Feb 17, 2020

Chronic illnesses are a major research challenge due to its implications in aging and quality of life of adults and elders, and it can be associated with chronic illnesses and other complaints. The ob...

A randomised, double-blind, crossover, dose ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral opioid to treat breakthrough pain for patients with advanced cancer already established on regular opioids.

Feb 17, 2020

Pain in people with advanced cancer is prevalent. When a stable dose of opioids is established, people still experience episodic breakthrough pain for which dosing of an immediate release opioid is us...

Associations between Neighborhood-Level Factors and Opioid-Related Mortality: A Multilevel Analysis using Death Certificate Data.

Feb 17, 2020

To identify associations between opioid-related mortality and neighborhood-level risk factors.Cross-sectional study.Massachusetts, USA.Using 2011-2014 Massachusetts death certificate data, we identifi...

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