CDC Slams Opioid Drug Use for Chronic Pain In New Guidelines
Citing statistics indicating that 40 people die every day in the U.S. from prescription pain killer overdose, CDC director Tom Frieden bluntly called for doctors to stop over prescribing the drugs. The CDC’s voluntary guidelines called for opioid pain killers...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
With an enormous potential therapeutic gain and a high safety profile, further development and application of VNS is encouraging. Yuan et. Al Vagus nerve stimulation is one of the most promising chronic pain interventions under development today. An earlier blog on...
Lending a Hand: the Avacen 100 for Fibromyalgia?
Forget the drugs – how about putting your hand in a machine and watching the pain ebb away? Science fiction? One company thinks not – and it’s recent Phase II study has turned out quite well – thank you. The Avacen machine purports to reduce...
The Surge Protectors: the Next Big Thing in Pain Drugs?
Effective pain management is a moral imperative – one we are not meeting. An IOM report Pain management is dominated by the use of opiates but arguably it shouldn’t be. Producing a sensation of pain is a complex operation. From the pain signals produced at...
Fibromyalgia – The Savella Story
Milnacipran (brand names: Savella, Ixel) is the third and last drug the FDA approved for the treatment of fibromyalgia in the United States. The fourth serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), to be introduced in the U.S., Savella stops the reuptake of...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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