Category: Healthcare Industry News
Orthopedic Surgeons Seek Opioid-Alternatives For Pain Management
May 28, 2019
Recently, there has been a push in the orthopedic community to “investigate and explore alternative strategies to keeping patients comfortable after surgery,” according to Nady Hamid, MD, of the Shoulder […]
Can Dietary Ingredients Actually Improve Pain?
May 23, 2019
A recent editorial accompanied by a series of articles by Pain Medicine, took a look at current practices that the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) utilizes to help their […]
Is There A Better Predictor for Knee Osteoarthritis?
May 7, 2019
A simple physical exam may help identify patients at risk for worsening knee osteoarthritis, based on the results of a recent study lead by Yuanyuan Wang, MD, PhD and her […]
Opioid Exposure Adversely Affecting First Responders: A Case Report
April 25, 2019
The ongoing opioid crisis has caused an increase in drug-related overdose deaths over the past few years. In addition to destroying the lives of the opioid users and their families, […]
New Research on Targeted Protein for Pain Relief
April 10, 2019
Researchers find a way to isolate key protein that can relieve chronic pain and other conditions Many issues including chronic pain, depression and obesity are linked to a key protein […]
Proposed Pain Care Policy Changes
March 28, 2019
Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations The Pain Management Task Force within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued a preliminary report […]
Another New Opioid On The Market?
January 31, 2019
The FDA Recently Approved A New Very Powerful Opioid Commissioner Scott Gottlieb of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defended the agency’s approval of a new opioid called Dsuvia, […]
U.S. Congress Passes Sweeping Opioid Legislation
October 20, 2018
In 2017, overdose deaths from opioids were higher than people killed in the Vietnam War—for the second year in a row. Opioid substances include prescription medications, the illicit drug fentanyl […]
Fighting The Opioid Crisis with Alternative Treatments like H-Wave®
September 26, 2018
ABC NEWS / WKRN Channel 2 in Tennessee recently ran a featured story about the current Opioid Crisis that highlighted H-Wave® as an Alternative Treatment to prescription pain medications. The […]
Ineffectiveness of Opioid Drugs on Chronic Pain Conditions
March 27, 2018
We know that low back pain is an extremely common problem, but it is also one of the leading causes of disability throughout the world. A majority of those with […]