Pain General
Jan 02, 2023
Regarding the treatment of ankle arthritis, the choice of arthroscopic ankle arthrodesis (AAA) or open ankle arthrodesis (OAA) remains controversial. To guide clinical decision-making, we conducted a ...
Jan 02, 2023
Resolvin D5 (RvD5) is a specialized pro-resolving lipid mediator with potent anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Orofacial pain conditions, especially those that are chronic, present clinical ...
Jan 02, 2023
Venom-derived Na1.7 channel blockers have promising prospects in pain management. The 34-residue tarantula peptide GpTx-1 is a potent Na1.7 channel blocker. Its powerful analog [Ala, Phe, Leu, Arg]GpT...
Dec 20, 2022
The following is a summary of "Psychometric Evaluation of the Veterans Affairs Bereaved Family Survey in Community Nursing Homes" published in the December 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management by...
Dec 20, 2022
The following is a summary of "Video and In-Person Palliative Care Delivery Challenges before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic" published in the December 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management by C...
Dec 20, 2022
The following is a summary of "Prognostic Understanding and Goals of Palliative Radiotherapy: A Qualitative Study" published in the December 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management by Chen et al. ...
Dec 19, 2022
Medicinal cannabis (MC) products have been available on prescription in Australia for around six years. General practitioners (GPs) are at the forefront of MC prescribing and recent years have seen su...
Dec 19, 2022
The aim of the study was to compare psychological characteristics of adolescent patients with Juvenile Fibromyalgia Syndrome (JFM) with individuals suffering from chronic pain (CP) due to headache or ...
Dec 19, 2022
Neuropathic pain is a refractory pain state, and its mechanism is still not clear. Previous studies have shown that the purine receptor P2X4R expressed on hyperactive microglia in the spinal cord is e...
Dec 19, 2022
The association between osteoporosis, a common metabolic bone disorder, and atherosclerosis has been reported in different studies. In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between the c...
Dec 19, 2022
Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successfully applied to a wide range of genetic variants underlying complex diseases. The network-based regression approach has been develo...
Dec 19, 2022
Patients with chronic pain show large placebo effects in clinical trials, and inert pills can lead to clinically meaningful analgesia that can last from days to weeks. Whether the placebo response can...
Dec 19, 2022
Readily accessible nonpharmacological interventions that can assist in opioid dose reduction while managing pain is a priority for adults receiving long-term opioid therapy (LOT). Few large-scale eval...
Dec 14, 2022
The following is a summary of "Predictors of Unrelieved Symptoms in All of Us Research Program Participants With Chronic Conditions" published in the December 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management...
Dec 14, 2022
The following is a summary of "Dysphagia in Solid Tumors Outside the Head, Neck or Upper GI Tract: Clinical Characteristics" published in the December 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management by Kenn...
Dec 14, 2022
The following is a summary of "Race, Affordability and Utilization of Supportive Care in Ovarian Cancer Patients" published in the September 2022 issue of Pain and Symptom Management by Anyanwu et al....
Dec 12, 2022
It has been thought that μ-opioid receptors (MOPs) activate the G protein-mediated analgesic pathway and β-arrestin 2-mediated side effect pathway; however, ligands that only minimally recruit β-ar...
Dec 09, 2022
Barring any other radiographic abnormalities, a straight neck may be a major anatomical aberration in fibromyalgia that has gone unnoticed. Robert Katz, MD, spoke with Physician’s Weekly abo...
Dec 08, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to examine Chinese cancer patients' risk-benefit preferences for rescue medications (RD) and their willingness to pay (WTP) in the treatment of breakthrough cancer pain...
Dec 08, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to evaluate the effectiveness of titrating the dosage of oxycodone intravenously in treating severe cancer pain. The second goal was the oral route's conversion ratio, ...