Pain
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Semaglutide Trial for Knee Osteoarthritis Shows Improvements in Pain, Physical Function
Results of the STEP 9 study in people with knee osteoarthritis and obesity show that semaglutide not only induced significant weight loss but also...
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Lidocaine Nerve Block Effective for Severe, Refractory Migraine in Children
“This is the first randomized controlled trial that shows lidocaine injections can be significantly more effective than a placebo for these...
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IV Ketamine Promising for Severe Refractory Headache in Children
Overall, the treatment was “safe and well tolerated.”
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Tension, Other Headache Types Robustly Linked to Attempted, Completed Suicide
The results underscore the need for psychiatric evaluations in patients with a headache disorder.
From the Journals
Chronic Pain Linked to Accelerated Brain Aging
The acceleration in brain aging was largely driven by the hippocampus and predicted memory decline and incident dementia during follow-up.
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Osteoarthritis as a Chronic Disease: Maximizing Management in Primary Care
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Researchers Seek to Block Use of FDA-Approved OUD-Risk Test
Physicians move to stop genetic test aimed at identifying those at risk for opioid addiction.
From the Journals
Virtual Reality Brings Relief to Hospitalized Patients With Cancer
Patients were randomized to receive either 10 minutes of immersive VR distraction therapy or 10 minutes of two-dimensional guided imagery...
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Should Opioids Be Used for Chronic Cancer Pain?
Prescribing strategies are partly driven by peer pressure, new research suggests.
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Erenumab Linked to Better Migraine Prevention
In patients with resistant episodic migraine, erenumab prevented migraines better than nonspecific oral migraine preventive medications.
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Women’s Cancers: Clinicians Research, Advise on Sexual Dysfunction
New research highlights the importance of discussing risks of sexual dysfunction in patients with women’s cancers.
Pearl of the Month
What is the Best Approach to “Sinus Headaches”?
An expert panel consisting of otolaryngologists, neurologists, allergists, and primary care physicians concluded that the majority of sinus...