http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring. http://www.physorg.com/news176047794.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:40:03 EST news176047794 (PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people suffer peripheral pain and other troubling sensations accompanying diseases as varied as diabetes, AIDS, shingles and arthritis. Cancer patients also often suffer these so-called peripheral neuropathies because of their therapies. http://www.physorg.com/news174752714.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:40:01 EST news174752714 People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help animals in the wild avoid distraction while eating scarce food, but in modern humans with readily available food, the effect may contribute to overeating and obesity. http://www.physorg.com/news174671978.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:00:08 EST news174671978 Veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo and the University of Tennessee have found a solution to the challenge of providing effective pain relief to some of their most difficult patients: big cats. http://www.physorg.com/news171044428.html Biology Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:30:02 EST news171044428 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings to eight companies for illegally marketing pain relief ointments containing ibuprofen. http://www.physorg.com/news169999891.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:40:02 EST news169999891 Taking opioid drugs without a prescription appears relatively common among high school seniors, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The most common reasons survey respondents gave for taking the medications included relaxation, feeling good or getting high, experimentation and pain relief. http://www.physorg.com/news168538195.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:10:02 EST news168538195 People with lower back pain are better off exercising more, not less. http://www.physorg.com/news163165576.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:46:37 EST news163165576 Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a way to maintain the pain-killing qualities of morphine over an extended period of time, thus providing a solution for the problem of having to administer increasing dosages of the drug in order to retain its effectiveness. http://www.physorg.com/news160047933.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:46:10 EST news160047933 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have found for the first time that novelty seeking personality types enjoy a stronger `placebo response,` or pain relief caused by the administration of a sham treatment, than people with reserved personalities. The study hypothesizes that the anticipation of pain relief, in this case triggered by the administration of a placebo, is a special case of reward anticipation. Since dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in reward processing, personality traits linked to dopamine, such as novelty seeking, were studied. http://www.physorg.com/news159724374.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:53:52 EST news159724374 Oral etoricoxib is at least as effective as other drugs commonly used for pain relief after surgery. A Cochrane Systematic Review has confirmed the effectiveness of the drug, which is sold under the brand name of Arcoxia. http://www.physorg.com/news158992301.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:32:17 EST news158992301 Osteoplasty -a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones -provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often presenting individuals who are suffering terribly with the miraculous so-called "Lazarus effect," according to researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting. Interventional radiologists often couple osteoplasty with heat or cold treatments to kill tumor nerves, if needed. http://www.physorg.com/news155810828.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:47:47 EST news155810828 Antioxidant supplementation was found to be effective in relieving pain and reducing levels of oxidative stress in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP), reports a new study in Gastroenterology. CP is a progressive inflammatory disease of the pancreas in which patients experience abdominal pain (in early stage) and diabetes and maldigestion (in late stage). Pain is the major problem in 90 percent of patients with CP and currently, there is no effective medical therapy for pain relief. Gastroenterology is the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news150024131.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:22:11 EST news150024131 Using pain treatments which contain codeine may be risky for some breastfeeding mothers, according to researchers at The University of Western Ontario, and the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. Lead author Dr. Gideon Koren published research in the journal, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics which suggests that the codeine used in some pain relief drugs can actually have harmful and even fatal results for infants when ingested by some breastfeeding mothers. http://www.physorg.com/news138463273.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:01:13 EST news138463273