Article: Pain Tx can improve cognition, lift depression: to get handle on extent of patients' pain, ask them direct questions and pay attention to nonverbal cues.(Geriatric Psychiatry)(Disease/Disorder overview)

Article: Pain med valuable treatment
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  July 23, 2006 ;     546 words ... ... Hospital who treats patients in severe pain at the end of life, I frequently prescribe ... patients for whom morphine and other strong pain medicines have not worked. Methadone works ... certainly not a drug of first choice to treat pain. Methadone is particularly dangerous in ...

Article: Pain med fed his descent into addiction.(News)
The Boston Herald;  January 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... failed to straighten his body, or the chronic bone condition that now afflicts him . . . pain is what defines his life these days. Pain cost him his career. Pain plunged him into depression. Pain nearly destroyed his family. And pain almost turned ...

Article: Minorities face pain-med bias.(News)
The Boston Herald;  March 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... than nonwhites to receive narcotics for pain treatment at hospital emergency rooms ... be working in the ER. Narcotic-based pain treatment has risen nationally in recent ... at 500 hospitals nationwide showed that pain affliction accounted for 42 percent of ...

Article: Patients got saltwater, not pain med; A Mankato ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... saline solution instead of the powerful pain medication fentanyl. Kutcher said the ... with saline. Fentanyl, an opium-based pain medication, is almost always used only ... infection or harm from not receiving sufficient pain medication during their procedures, Kutcher ...

Article: Comments due on pain med regs.(Practice Trends)
Family Practice News;  March 15, 2005 ;     381 words ... ... interim policy statement on dispensing controlled substances for pain. A Federal Register statement outlines several inaccuracies ... guidance and reassurance to physicians who engage in legitimate pain treatment while deterring the unlawful conduct of a small number ...

Article: New pain med offers 24-hour relief
Drug Topics;  April 1, 2002 ;     259 words ... ... Elan Corp. The capsules contain immediateand sustained-release morphine beads, providing once-daily treatment of chronic moderate to severe pain. The drug has been licensed to Ligand Pharmaceuticals and will be launched this quarter.

Article: 'Oh wait, I forgot to mention this pain' Med ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... innocuous as a harmless freckle -- or a bombshell. "You're walking out the door, and they say, 'Oh, I've got this chest pain I meant to tell you about,' so you have to go back into the room and start over again," said Dr. John Bonavia, a family ...