Hit Back At Pain, Says Arthritis Care, England A shocking 90% of calls to Arthritis Care's helpline in the last 12 months have been cries for help over pain - so this year, the charity is marking its awareness week by urging doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to support people with arthritis in making a special challenge to pain and the constraints it imposes on their lives.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPhysical Therapy Is Effective For Management Of Low-Back Pain A new review article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons should help convince many patients with low back pain to consider physical therapy as a first line of treatment for their condition, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comThe Barriers That Prevent Children From Taking Prescribed Medicines The widespread problem of children failing to take their medication for a range of life-threatening illnesses is to be tackled as part of a new university research project. The 21-month study involving health specialists at The University of Nottingham and The University of Leicester will draw on the experiences of school children with asthma, diabetes, congenital heart disease and epilepsy to learn about the barriers that prevent them from taking medicines prescribed for them.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGuideline For Treating Chronic Non-Cancer Pain With Opioid Medications A national panel of pain management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive, evidence-based clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The long-awaited guideline appears in the current issue of The Journal of Pain, http://www.jpain.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPalisade Systems DLP Technology Deployed By Gibson General Hospital To Protect Electronic Medical Records Palisade Systems, a leading provider of data loss prevention products and services, announced today the addition of a new healthcare customer, Gibson General Hospital, that is using its data loss prevention technology, PacketSure, to protect its patients' records.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGlaucoma Research Highlights From AAO-SOE Joint Meeting Nov. 9 Glaucoma-related highlights of the scientific program of the 2008 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) and European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) include a study that correlates optic nerve damage in glaucoma patients with carotid artery narrowing and potentially elev
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