In response to concerns about overdose deaths in the U.S. due to prescribed opioid pain killers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines to help primary care doctors determine when and how best to prescribe them to patients, particularly those with noncancer-related chronic pain. The CDC recommends physicians avoid prescribing opioids such… Continue reading Opioid Use: A Public Health Crisis
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Women’s Pain Is Often Mismanaged
Despite the variety of effective treatments, and the number of physicians who specialize in treating pain, women often suffer unnecessarily from conditions ranging from backaches to pain after cancer surgery. Women also frequently try to manage their pain with medications that may be ineffective and possibly harmful. Those are the findings of a review of… Continue reading Women’s Pain Is Often Mismanaged