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EU-funded project finds way to improve patients' pain treatment after surgery

Millions of people undergo surgery each year. Many of them suffer from moderate to severe pain afterwards. This post-operative pain may impede recovery or even lead on into chronic pain. Now, the EU-funded project PAIN-OUT, completed in 2012, may have found a way to improve patients' pain treatment after surgery.

9 May 2014

Shift switches pain sensor from cold-sensitive to hot-sensitive

Ice cream lovers and hot tea drinkers with sensitive teeth could one day have a reason to celebrate a new finding from Duke University researchers. The scientists have found a very small change in a single protein that turns a cold-sensitive receptor into one that senses heat.

9 May 2014

Salix Pharmaceuticals' total net product revenue increases 90% to $384.4 million in Q1 2014

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. today announced financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014, and other business updates.

9 May 2014

Cellectricon, Neusentis to host webinar on phenotypic screening approaches in pain research

Cellectricon, a leading provider of advanced cell-based screening technologies and services, will co-host a webinar with Neusentis, describing the use of native cells to develop an assay with improved physiological relevance over traditional approaches in pain drug discovery research.

From Cellectricon 8 May 2014

New mobile apps to help manage chronic pain patients

Mobile medicine is helping chronic pain patients cope with and manage their condition thanks to new smartphone apps, which can track patients from a distance and monitor pain, mood, physical activity, drug side effects, and treatment compliance.

2 May 2014

Teva announces positive results from pivotal Phase III study of hydrocodone bitartrate extended-release tablets

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. today announced positive results from a pivotal Phase III study of hydrocodone bitartrate extended-release tablets designed with Teva's proprietary technology providing potential abuse-deterrent properties (CEP-33237).

30 Apr 2014

Purdue Pharma seeks FDA authorization to market once-daily hydrocodone bitartrate tablet

Purdue Pharma L.P. announced that it has filed a New Drug Application (NDA) with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration seeking authorization to market a once-daily, single-entity hydrocodone bitartrate tablet (HYD).

30 Apr 2014

FAM hosts 13th annual event at Webber Cancer Center to benefit patients with fibromyalgia

The Fibromyalgia Association of Michigan (FAM) will host its 13th annual event at the Webber Cancer Center at St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital on 11800 12 Mile Road from 12:30 - 5:30 PM.

30 Apr 2014

Neuropathic and psychogenic pain contribute to chronic musculoskeletal pain

A lack of appropriate treatment for neuropathic and psychogenic pain may cause patients with musculoskeletal pain to suffer a more chronic pain course, according to the latest results of an ongoing Japanese epidemiological study.

28 Apr 2014

High rate of chronic pain found after general surgery

More than 2 years after undergoing an operation, almost 15% of general surgery patients suffer from chronic postsurgical pain, say researchers.

28 Apr 2014

Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society

Improved physician education and patient counseling about methadone safety and ECG monitoring to identify patients at high risk for cardiac problems will lead to safer use of the medication, according to the American Pain Society's Clinical Practice Guideline on Methadone Safety, published this week in The Journal of Pain.

26 Apr 2014

Researchers identify key genes linked to pain perception

Researchers may have identified key genes linked to why some people have a higher tolerance for pain than others, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

21 Apr 2014

St. Jude Medical's net sales increase 2% in first quarter 2014

St. Jude Medical, Inc. today reported sales and net earnings for the first quarter ended March 29, 2014.

16 Apr 2014

Viewpoints: Obamacare dilemma -- some people dislike the law but embrace its provisions; are health costs falling?

Polls have consistently shown that even though the public opposes Obamacare, people like some of its most significant provisions. That's particularly true of the requirement that insurers ignore preexisting conditions when signing up customers for coverage.

16 Apr 2014

2014 PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference to highlight health crises of inadequate pain management

There are 116 million people in pain. There are 4,000 pain specialists. That's 29,000 patients per pain specialist. There are simply not enough pain specialists to go around.

9 Apr 2014

New nonsurgical approach to treat chronic pain and stiffness linked with knee osteoarthritis

A new nonsurgical approach to treating chronic pain and stiffness associated with knee osteoarthritis has demonstrated significant, lasting improvement in knee pain, function, and stiffness.

9 Apr 2014

SLU researcher receives NIH grant to study on type of opioids that lead to depression

After finding a link between chronic use of prescription-based painkillers and increase in risk of depression, Saint Louis University researcher Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., has received a $391,706 NIH grant to further investigate the pattern in a wider patient base, and study the type of opioids that lead to depression.

8 Apr 2014

Study: Intense physiotherapy sessions have no additional benefits for chronic whiplash pain

Results of a new trial of treatments for chronic whiplash pain, published in The Lancet, suggest that expensive, intense physiotherapy sessions do not show any additional benefit over a single physiotherapy session of education and advice with phone follow-up.

7 Apr 2014

BDSI enrolls first patient in Clonidine Topical Gel Phase 3 trial for treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. announced today the enrollment of the first patient in the RHAPSODY Study, a Phase 3 clinical trial of Clonidine Topical Gel for the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy.

3 Apr 2014

Spouses who express emotions have better sexual, psychological and relational well-being

Spouses who regulate their emotions together in a satisfactory manner are more fulfilled sexually, psychologically, and relationally, among couples in which the woman has provoked vestibulodynia (PVD), also known as "vulvar vestibulitis".

31 Mar 2014

Chronic Pain News and Research

EU-funded project finds way to improve patients' pain treatment after surgery

Shift switches pain sensor from cold-sensitive to hot-sensitive

Salix Pharmaceuticals' total net product revenue increases 90% to $384.4 million in Q1 2014

Cellectricon, Neusentis to host webinar on phenotypic screening approaches in pain research

New mobile apps to help manage chronic pain patients

Teva announces positive results from pivotal Phase III study of hydrocodone bitartrate extended-release tablets

Purdue Pharma seeks FDA authorization to market once-daily hydrocodone bitartrate tablet

FAM hosts 13th annual event at Webber Cancer Center to benefit patients with fibromyalgia

Neuropathic and psychogenic pain contribute to chronic musculoskeletal pain

High rate of chronic pain found after general surgery

Methadone safety: New clinical practice guideline from American Pain Society

Researchers identify key genes linked to pain perception

St. Jude Medical's net sales increase 2% in first quarter 2014

Viewpoints: Obamacare dilemma -- some people dislike the law but embrace its provisions; are health costs falling?

2014 PAINWeekEnd Regional Conference to highlight health crises of inadequate pain management

New nonsurgical approach to treat chronic pain and stiffness linked with knee osteoarthritis

SLU researcher receives NIH grant to study on type of opioids that lead to depression

Study: Intense physiotherapy sessions have no additional benefits for chronic whiplash pain

BDSI enrolls first patient in Clonidine Topical Gel Phase 3 trial for treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy

Spouses who express emotions have better sexual, psychological and relational well-being

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

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