Here’s another report on a study indicating that the placebo effect is more than participants wanting to please researchers. This isn’t the first study to blow that high school biology theory out of the water, just the most recent. All three articles I’ve blogged about…
The October issue of Headache reports results of a controlled trial of acupuncture for chronic daily headache. Researchers set out to see if people with CDH may benefit from treatment other than meds because “medical management” alone is often ineffective. The results indicate that, yes,…
E-mail etiquette suggests that if you write an angry e-mail, you should not send it immediately so you have a chance to edit the message when you’ve calmed down. Sometimes I wonder if I should follow this rule for posting things on The Daily Headache….
Pfizer announced today that Lyrica (pregabalin) is now available for doctors to prescribe to patients. The drug is indicated for use for neuropathic pain and seizures, but has also shown to improve patients’ sleep patterns. A successor to Neurontin (gabapentin), the two drugs act similarly…
When chronic pain gets so bad that patients head to the emergency room for treatment, many of them leave the ER in pain and angry. Patients feel that they have been ignored, reprimanded, dismissed and degraded. A preliminary study on how how ER docs and…