American Pain Society announces recipients of Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards.
The American Pain Society (APS) announced the recipients of its second annual Clinical Centers of Excellence (CCOE) in Pain Management Awards, recognizing the nation's outstanding pain care centers. Six multidisciplinary pain programs were recognized, including the Richard Barrett Pain Management Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH;...

Pain, morphine and addiction: fear and misunderstanding about the nature of addiction may be stopping many patients getting the proper relief they need from chronic pain.
Mrs S* is in her 80s and over the years has become progressively more immobilised from rheumatoid arthritis, compounded by osteoporosis. She is in chronic pain which has recently intensified as a result of compacted vertebrae. The drugs of choice for the management of moderate to severe...

Weekly resources.
Helpful Sources for Planning Your Science Weekly Classroom Activities Recommended Resources * Culbert, Timothy and Rebecca Kijander, Be The Boss of Your Own Pain. Free Spirit Publishing, 2007 * Melzack, Ronald and Patrick D. Wall, Editors, The Handbook of Pain Management, A Clinical...

Zynex Reports Increased Orders in August.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-12 September 2008-Zynex Reports Increased Orders in August(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Zynex, a provider of pain management systems and electrotherapy products for medical patients with functional disability, announced an increase in its orders of 121 percent for August of 2008 compared to the...

Pain management in diabetic neuropathy: ten years of progress?
In the late 19th century, Pavy (1885) vividly described the pain of diabetic neuropathy as being 'of a burning and unremitting character'. Approximately 100 years later an editorial in the Lancet questioned, 'Can we do anything about diabetic neuropathy or do we just have to document it and commiserate...

Alternative therapies for chronic abdominal pain.
Chronic recurrent abdominal pain couldn't have a better acronym. It is a very common problem in children, one that causes both the patients and their parents a lot of grief, and one for which conventional drug-based approaches seldom work. The good news is that many of these...

Medtronic Debuts Discyphor Direct Catheter System.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-22 September 2008-Medtronic Debuts Discyphor Direct Catheter System(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Medical technology company Medtronic has announced the U.S. launch of the Discyphor Direct Catheter System, the second-generation catheter system used by physicians to obtain additional information to diagnose discogenic low back pain....

Physician-assisted death in the United States: are the existing "last resorts" enough?
Although there has been relatively little activity in the last ten years with regard to legal access to physician-assisted death, this fall a citizens' initiative in the state of Washington is proposing an Oregon-style law that would allow legal access to potentially lethal medication for terminally ill patients, subject...

Analyst Report Says RBC Life Sciences is 'Growing at a Rapid Clip'.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-17 September 2008-Analyst Report Says RBC Life Sciences is 'Growing at a Rapid Clip'(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com RBC Life Sciences, a national business advisory firm recently featured RBC Life Sciences, a global provider of evidence-based nutritional supplements and personal care products, in an...

World Pain Management Drugs and Devices to Top $33 Billion by 2010.
NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- As the world population continues to age and the incidence of chronic pain conditions increases, the global market for pain management drugs and devices will continue to grow steadily from its expected year-end revenues of $26 billion to more than $33 billion in...