You can now register and reserve your hotel room for AAPM 2020 in National Harbor, MD. The program features 3 excellent preconferences and a packed 36th Annual Meeting with more than 40 sessions covering the [...]
The University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI), in collaboration with the FDA, is conducting research to better understand how compounded products are used in clinical practice. Through completion of [...]
The Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee will hold its next meeting on November 18, 2019, and will be available on a videocast. For more information.
Abstract: Managing neuropathic pain in patients with advanced cancer can be challenging: it often requires an adjuvant analgesic and what works for one person may not work for another. Pain that is unresponsive to pharmacological [...]
An international team of researchers has used nanoparticles to deliver a drug—one that previously failed in clinical trials for pain—into specific compartments of nerve cells, dramatically increasing its ability to treat pain in mice and [...]
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), the Chairman of the Aging Committee, and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced the Mitigating Emergency Drug Shortages (MEDS) Act, legislation that would help increase the supplies of vital drugs needed [...]
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Gabapentinoid use for long-term cancer pain control may be problematic, given unclear mechanisms of action and increased concerns for physical dependence. The purpose of this report is to examine trends of gabapentinoid use among [...]
Sheffield Neuroscientists Reveal Link between Cell 'Dark Matter' and Chronic Nerve Pain A new study demonstrates for the first time a link between chronic neuropathic pain and levels of specific microRNA, part of the non-protein [...]
Mind-body therapies like meditation or hypnosis that use mental techniques to help relieve pain are tied to moderate improvements in pain intensity as well as reduced opioid doses, a new analysis of past studies suggests. [...]
Brief Summary:Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is common. Most Americans will have at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetimes. Approximately 50% of all US Veterans have chronic pain, and CLBP is [...]
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