| | | | |  | |  | I just got off the phone with someone who told me his story which is, unfortunately, an all too common story. He has been using opioid medicines for eight years to manage his pain. He tried everything before he tried opioids and these medicines were the only thing that worked to relieve his pain. He had several guests at his house for Thanksgiving and when people left, he discovered that his month's supply of pain medicines were gone... | |  | The FDA reports that PriCara and Sandoz, Inc. have announced a voluntary nationwide recall of all lots of 25 mcg/hr Duragesic Patches (fentanyl transdermal system) sold in the U.S. The recalled patches all have expiration dates on or before December 2009.... | |  | Americans are spending more money trying to ease back and neck pain, but new research suggests those extra dollars aren't buying more relief. The increased expenditures were expected, said the authors of a study in the Feb. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, but the lack of results weren't. |
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Scientists at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered a clue that may help explain why chronic pain patients also often suffer with sleep disorders, depression, difficulty making decisions, etc. -
Glucosamine sulfate, a popular dietary supplement purported to ease the pain and inflammation of arthritis, does not seem to help people with arthritis in their hips. -
Although adults who lose weight may also lose some bone mass, obese adolescents seem to keep gaining bone density as they shed pounds, a study suggests. -
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