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Bariatric surgery significantly improves measures of pain

Written by | 17 Jun 2016

by Bruce Sylvester: During three years following bariatric surgery, a majority of patients achieved improvement in pain, physical function, and walk time, researchers reported on April 5 2016… read more.

ILTS 2016: Professor John O’Grady (Kings College Hospital, London) discusses current practices in managing HCV. Also included associated article.

Written by | 17 Jun 2016

Treating patients with Hepatitis C infections who are on the liver transplant waiting list is not a given by Thomas R. Collins: What if patients are too sick… read more.

ECCO 2016: Professor Stefan Schreiber (Kiel, Germany) discusses some of the issues in managing Crohn’s disease.

Written by | 20 May 2016

In it for the long haul – managing the complexity of Crohn’s disease by Maria Dalby Michael Kamm (Melbourne, Australia), Remo Panaccione (Alberta, Canada) and Stefan Schreiber (Kiel,… read more.

ECCO 2016: Professor Stefan Schreiber (Kiel, Germany) discusses some of the issues in managing Crohn's disease.

Written by | 20 May 2016

In it for the long haul – managing the complexity of Crohn’s disease by Maria Dalby Michael Kamm (Melbourne, Australia), Remo Panaccione (Alberta, Canada) and Stefan Schreiber (Kiel,… read more.

ECCO 2016: Mechanisms by which inflammation resolves

Written by | 13 May 2016

Silvio Danese, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital, Milan, Italy. Article by Maria Dalby – The current paradigm for managing inflammatory conditions is to suppress the inflammatory response by… read more.

ECCO 2016: Dr Charlie Lees (Edinburgh, UK) discusses in the video and article below the factors influencing the decision to stop treatment and discussed whether it may be possible to predict relapse using currently available methods

Written by | 9 May 2016

Stopping drugs – by Maria Dalby Charles Lees (Edinburgh, UK) Medication constitutes a large part of the IBD exposome, and stopping drug treatment should be a therapeutic goal… read more.

Hyrdomorphone shows efficacy for heroin addiction treatment

Written by | 25 Apr 2016

by Bruce Sylvester: Hyrdomorphone, a licensed pain medication, shows efficacy in treating chronic heroin addiction, researchers from the SALOME (the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness) trial… read more.

Blocking stress protein relieves chronic pain

Written by | 8 Apr 2016

A group of drugs being developed to treat mood disorders could also relieve chronic pain, finds new UCL (University College London) research funded by the Medical Research Council.

Primary care physicians dealing with chronic pain

Written by | 7 Apr 2016

New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital finds benefits in careful monitoring of chronic pain patients and need for pain management within primary care.

Tailored acupuncture lessens pain intensity fibromyalgia

Written by | 6 Apr 2016

Nine weekly sessions of individually tailored acupuncture lessen perceived pain intensity, and improve functional capacity and quality of life, in people with the chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia, finds… read more.

Women suffer more neck pain than men

Written by | 5 Apr 2016

Women are 1.38 times more likely than men to report neck pain due to cervical degenerative disc disease, according to a study of adult patients treated at Loyola… read more.

Mindfulness meditation reduces pain through non-opioid system

Written by | 30 Mar 2016

by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers report that mindfulness meditation can significantly reduce pain but that it does not employ the endogenous opioid system to do so. The findings appeared… read more.

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