Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years, and probably because it has measurable benefits that keep practitioners in business. But getting western medicine to approve–and include it under health insurance policies–has been a different story. Now, a new study proves that acupuncture...
An off-patent anti-inflammatory drug that costs around two cents for a daily dose in developing countries has been found by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College to kill both replicating and non-replicating drug resistant tuberculosis in the laboratory -- a feat few currently approved TB...
Mayim Bialik was recently in a car accident where her hand was severely injured (there was a lot of blood, and she almost lost her thumb!). But she told Access Hollywood that she's not taking any prescription medications to deal with the pain; rather, she's using the natural childbirth...
Right below my index finger my palm is swollen a little. Occasional I can see a bruise and it is very sore to touch. It has been like this for about a month. Any ideas of what might be happening?
...yesterday...........................? My husband had a callus that kept having a very painful split come in it so he went to the doctor and she removed half of his left big toenail and the ingrown that came out was really huge and it was very very deep. The callus he had on the side of his...
Researchers from Austria have determined that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their doctors differ on perception of RA disease activity. The study now available in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and published by Wiley, reports that RA...
"Exposure to media coverage of terrorist missile attacks increases pain levels in people already suffering from chronic pain," according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. "Does War Hurt? Effects of Media Exposure After Missile Attacks on Chronic Pain,"...
The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients, a new study finds. This is the first clinical trial to find an effective treatment for this pain. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral...
Researchers at the University of Leeds have found a previously unknown mechanism through which pain is signalled by nerve cells - a discovery that could explain the current failings in the drug development process for painkillers and which may offer opportunities for a new approach...
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Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) even when they report severe pain, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston. "The...
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that over 33.3% of individuals suffering from invasive cancer do not receive sufficient pain medication, with minorities twice as likely not to receive analgesics. Published in Journal of Clinical Oncology, the study...
Chest pain patients educated about their future heart attack risk and involved in deciding care options were more likely than less-aware patients to opt out of stress testing, according to research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. Chest...
Hidden in the mud, the cone snail Conus purpurascens lies in wait for its victims. It attracts its prey, fish, with its proboscis, which can move like a worm, protruding from the mud. Once a fish approaches out of curiosity, the snail will rapidly shoot a harpoon at it, which consists of an...
Researchers at the University of Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital have identified how neural cells like those in our bodies are able to build up resistance to opioid pain drugs within hours. Humans have known about the usefulness of opioids, which are often harvested from poppy plants, for...
I worked out yesterday for the first time in a really long time and today I feel like my muscles have been ripped from my bones. I know about the whole lactic acid thing and the whole micro tear thing and I've been sore from workouts before but nothing to this extreme degree... Im just curious...
A study published early online in JAMA to coincide with its presentation at the American College of Cardiology's annual scientific sessions, reveals that patients with chest pain who received an intravenous solution of glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) had no reduced risk of progressing to a heart...
Patients who have undergone sinus surgery can safely take an alternative pain medication that does not cause the side effects of narcotics such as fentanyl and Vicodin, a Loyola University Health System study has found. The alternative medication is ketorolac (brand name, Toradol). It is in the...
I think it's my right ovary, mostly. I've been having a small amount of abdominal pain concentrated in the right side of my abdomen/pelvis. Within the past couple weeks, I've been physically intimate with my boyfriend. No actual intercourse, just stimulating with no clothes on. I'm a virgin, if...
I think it's my right ovary, mostly. I've been having a small amount of abdominal pain concentrated in the right side of my abdomen/pelvis. Within the past couple weeks, I've been physically intimate with my boyfriend. No actual intercourse, just stimulating with no clothes on. I'm a virgin, if...
I think it's my right ovary, mostly. I've been having a small amount of abdominal pain concentrated in the right side of my abdomen/pelvis. Within the past couple weeks, I've been physically intimate with my boyfriend. No actual intercourse, just stimulating with no clothes on. I'm a virgin, if...